I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful!

The weak fall, but the strong shall rise up as a phoenix else we will be no more than a pile of ash.

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

People can think what they want to think, I don't go after people. I think most people I talk to, like me, are very quiet and keep to themselves, they maintain their lives.

Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.