If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.

I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

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

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.

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.