I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.