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

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

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.

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

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

Chrysler builds great cars.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

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

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

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.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

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.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

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

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

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

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.