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.