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

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.

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.

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

Maybe love and pain are synonyms.

My imagination and power are limitless. Nothing can stop me from achieving my dreams.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

I would like to see America some day.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.