It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

We have to succeed, so we will.

This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships