The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.