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" A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business. "

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" In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. "

" We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. "

" 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. "

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

" I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford. "

" People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. "

" If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got. "

" One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. "

" You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. "

" My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. "

" Chrysler builds great cars. "

" I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. "

" There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. "

" The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. "

" In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. "

" Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it. "

" Management is nothing more than motivating other people. "

" No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? "

" There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. "

" Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment. "

" To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for. "

" The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. "

" In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. "

" Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. "

" I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team. "

" The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. "

" Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. "

" I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days. "

" What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed. "

" We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? "