You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.

Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

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

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.