I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

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

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

Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.

It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

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