Martin Winterkorn Quotations

Last year, we set a sales record. This year we are also going to go full throttle.

MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

One million units by 2008 is just an initial aim.

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.

It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.

Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.

I would like to thank Wolfgang Schreiber for his successful work with Bentley and Bugatti and the consistent further development of the two brands.

VW's future is increasingly being decided in China, Russia, India, the Americas and Southeast Asia. This is where we will generate most of our growth in future.

VW grows with the challenges. We continue to do, even when times are tough.

Volkswagen must continue to attack and make good use of its opportunities.

We were not very happy with our results in the US last year. But with the Q7 model we will return to profit in the US this year.

When a customer sits inside the car, then they have to have the feeling that it's an Audi - whether it's the leatherwork or the bodywork. All these things must be typically Audi.

There are always opportunities one cannot pass up.

We will announce what exactly is to happen at Seat as soon as we have all the details. We are currently working on different plans with which we could lead Seat towards a successful future.

Audi has fewer problems with electronics than any other company.

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

Americans are as they are. We have to accept this. Lots of Europeans forget that.

The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.

The U.S. market has the highest priority for Volkswagen.

The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.

India is and will remain an important strategic growth market for the Volkswagen Group. We are convinced that VW will take on a key role in the Indian automobile market in the long-term.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

I am an emotional person, and soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind.

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

Combining their operating business will make Volkswagen and Porsche even stronger - both financially and strategically - going forward.

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume.

Bentley and Lamborghini have been achieving record sales for years. This doesn't support the notion that these models are suddenly social pariahs. There will always be a place for these kinds of cars.

Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.

The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

It's important to see things in perspective. Automobile traffic is responsible for only 12 percent of total CO2 emissions. One should be able to point this out without being accused of changing the subject.

The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car.

The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles.