To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get 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.

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

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

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.