On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.