A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

Encouragement is the strength of the spirit.

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

If you're trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.

When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.