We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything

People say to me, ”You were a roaring success. How did you do it?” I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God,...

Al Gore’s extreme ideas about cars could cost a lot of Michigan families their jobs.

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set...

You know, I’m not too sure what you just said. Now everybody gets a great deal.

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.

MBAs know everything but understand nothing.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

to be pushed around anymore.

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he’s in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

I was stunned. It was a complete takeover. Chrysler had $12 billion in cash and was stronger at the time and should have bought Daimler.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Boys, there ain’t no free lunches in this country. And don’t go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You’ve got to say, ”I think that if I keep working at...

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

The boss was a genius,

One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

It was a marriage made in heaven. The ads created a lot of buzz, and sales rose 24.7 percent in July,

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

The one word that makes a good manager – decisiveness.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

He’s just a good kid.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, … I didn’t know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad...

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

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

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way

They’re going to Orlando, and I’m going to Palm Beach. If it were just me, I wouldn’t do this. But because there are eight or nine of us, it makes sense to fly this way.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

I’m here today because our country needs a change in leadership, … We need a leader who is really dedicated to creating millions of high-paying jobs all across the country.

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.

I’m sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team

If it hadn’t been for Henry Ford’s drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn’t have a middle class today,

The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the whole world?

Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there

If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.

We believe the combination of these two companies will produce very powerful synergies and puts us on a solid platform from which we should be able to realize our full growth potential.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then…do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.

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

I gotta tell ya, with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it’s almost obscene.

When the product is right, you don’t have to be a great marketer.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

I’ve always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he’s able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to...

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.