Sergio Marchionne Quotes

Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive.

I'm very proud of the auto industry in Michigan.

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.

I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

Our dream is to see Geely vehicles driven all over the world.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

The only magazines I read are car magazines.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.

After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next.

When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.