87 Quotes by Sergio Marchionne


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    The suggestion that we were pursuing consolidation as a replacement for reaching our financial targets by 2018 is fundamentally a bunch of hogwash.

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    I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.

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    I just want to make things that people want to buy. I have no confusion about this.

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    The last thing you want is a group of senators who just lent you seven and a half billion dollars to sit back and go, 'Look at these jerks and how they're using taxpayer money.'

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    One of the most horrible wastes of capital you see is the duplication of the effort by the car manufacturers to do things that appear to be different from the other guy.

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    What is the point of one guy developing a 1.3 engine, and another guy a 1.4? What are you getting for this? And the answer is nothing: a total waste of capital.

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    There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead.

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