We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.