What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

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.

Chrysler builds great cars.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.