The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

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

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

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

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

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

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.

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

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

Keep working when grace abound.

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.

The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.

If I can win grammys then that means all you yet to be seen bedroom geniuses will one day TAKEOVER THE WORLD