There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

Only the paranoid survive.

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really

Activity is not output.