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.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

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

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