In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.