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" I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country. "

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" The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. "

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" Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager. "

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

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

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

" In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. "

" The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Chrysler builds great cars. "

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

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

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

" I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. "

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

" Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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