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

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they’ll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.

The one word that makes a good manager / decisiveness.

I have to act to live.

He’s just a good kid. I didn’t understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun.

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.