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I'm a phenomenal fan of Elon Musk. I think he's the greatest. He's a disrupter, and I think he is a great marketer. And I love him.
Sergio Marchionne / Executive
Phenomenal
Greatest
Love Great Think
Fan
Elon Musk
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There is nothing that would prevent Fiat Chrysler from providing ride-sharing service to a wider community and using our dealer network for this.
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Chrysler
Dealer
Providing
Fiat
Prevent
Wider
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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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Consolidation
Hogwash
Reaching
Fundamentally
Pursuing
Replacement
Suggestion
Targets
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The HMI (human-machine interface) function inside a Ferrari is probably the weakest link in the chain of technical know-how that's embodied in the car.
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Ferrari
Function
Weakest Link
Chain
Embodied
Interface
Link
Weakest
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There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
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Causes
Confusion
Doubt
Manufacturing
No Doubt
Standards
Traditional
Definition
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Repatriating the Ram HD is the right thing to do... it should never have been moved to Mexico. This was owed to the U.S. government - and the taxpayers.
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Mexico
Right Thing
Owed
Ram
The Right Thing
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I have been public on this, and I firmly, firmly believe that this notion of accountability for what you promise as a leader is as important as your integrity.
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Accountability
Integrity
Notion
Promise
Firmly
Believe Important Your
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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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Developing
Waste
Engine
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I've always had this incredible sense of urgency. I've always had this desire not to let things fester and to really seize the moment, because it's serendipity.
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Desire
Urgency
Fester
Moment
Seize
Sense
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I am totally in line with the fact that I think wealth distribution for carmakers needs to be redimensioned to allow labor to take a piece of that wealth distribution.
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Distribution
Labor
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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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Duplication
Horrible
Appear
Be Different
Manufacturers
Wastes
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Chrysler's best assets were its Jeeps, minivans, and light trucks. Fiat's expertise was in small-car technology and fuel-efficient engines, the very thing that Chrysler lacked.
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Technology
Assets
Chrysler
Engines
Expertise
Light
Fiat
Fuel-Efficient
Trucks
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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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Senators
Billion
Billion Dollars
Jerks
Lent
Taxpayer
Taxpayer Money
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The biggest fear that I see is that we will be left behind. We are a very slow industry; for us to make a decision takes forever. Take Tesla: Elon moves at the speed of a rocket.
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Decision
Forever
Industry
Speed
Tesla
Biggest
Moves
Slow
Rocket
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We have been very reluctant to make statements about where the industry is going to go. The Wrangler is going hybrid in 2020. We don't make much noise about that, but it will happen.
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Noise
Reluctant
Statements
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Having had to live through a period of integration into another country a number of years ago, I am keenly aware of the negative implications of stereotyping and the significant efforts required to undo its effects.
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Effects
Implications
Integration
Negative
Significant
Years Ago
Aware
Period
Efforts
Number
Required
Stereotyping
Undo
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By 2025, more than half of the power units you see on the road will have some relevance of electrification. There may be a base combustion engine, but it is combustion and electrification that will make the machine run.
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Combustion
Relevance
Units
Engine
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We have made the decision that we're going to take some key products, such as the Wrangler and the Grand Cherokee, and protect those as being true American icons: produce them in the U.S. and make them available nowhere else.
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Cherokee
Icons
Nowhere
Grand
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It is only proper that our employees share in the savings generated by tax reform and that we openly acknowledge the resulting improvement in the U.S. business environment by investing in our industrial footprint accordingly.
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Acknowledge
Footprint
Improvement
Investing
Tax Reform
Accordingly
Employees
Industrial
Openly
Proper
Resulting
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People need to trust you: that you're going to pull them out and that they will follow you when you pull them out. If they don't get that comfort, they're going to drop you. This is true of organizations. It's true of countries.
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Trust
Comfort
Trust People Will
Countries
Drop
Follow
Pull
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One of the things that unfortunately happens in organizations that become dysfunctional is that the very first thing to go is the amount of care and attention that you place on the workplace and the environment within which people work.
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Workplace
Dysfunctional
First Thing
Unfortunately
Work Care People
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When we agreed to the changes in the emissions standards and the objectives for 2025 with President Obama, there was a very clear road map that was put in place that required a midterm review, which should have been completed by 2017 and '18.
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Emissions
President Obama
Standards
Obama
Agreed
Completed
Map
Required
Review
Road Map
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When you got mechanisms in a car that prevent damage from happening to the engine and that operate under very specific circumstances, those things are exceptions under normal operating conditions of the car; under the rules, they need to be disclosed.
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Circumstances
Conditions
Damage
Normal
Rules
Engine
Exceptions
Happening
Mechanisms
Operate
Prevent
Specific
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When I was young and foolish, and I had no money, I bought myself the carcass of a Jaguar E-Type. It was a rust bucket. I spent all my university savings trying to fix the car. I never did, and I finally sold it to recover at least part of my investment.
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Foolish
Investment
Rust
Savings
Fix
Recover
Sold
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I think that if you don't do the full analysis of what the origin of the electrical power is, where it comes from, how you get batteries into these cars, what the cost is in terms of CO2 and the environment, I think the analysis that we are going to save the planet with electric cars is nonsense.
Sergio Marchionne / Executive
Car
Analysis
Batteries
Co2
Cost
Electric
Environment
Nonsense
Full
Electric Cars
Origin
Planet
Terms
Save
Where
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Back in 2005, I introduced a thing which, I don't mind saying this - I mean, we stole it, at least in its basic form, from Toyota - it's called World Class Manufacturing. I mean, it's this pretentious title for something which really involves the revisiting of the manufacturing processes of dedication to the removal of waste.
Sergio Marchionne / Executive
Manufacturing
Pretentious
Removal
Toyota
Waste
Basic
Introduced
Involves
Processes
Revisiting
Stole
Title
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