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.

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

because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

You should always say goodbye to the people you love before you walk away. Hug them and hold them tight like it is the last moment you have, because it just might be.

There is no animal lazier than a cat.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.