In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

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

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

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.