Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they’ll say, ‘God, he said exactly what I was thinking.’ And when they begin to respect you, they’ll follow you to the death.

Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them,

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

If you can find a better car, buy it.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

You’ve got to say, ”I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.” It’s called perseverance.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Every business and every product has risks. You can’t get around it.

Something’s got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we’re all going down the tubes,

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...

I thought I was retired from commercials, … But I think Chrysler will be a great help to me. That’s why I did it it creates great awareness.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it...

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.