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" If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent. "

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

" I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Chrysler builds great cars. "

" It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans. "

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

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

" Trouble shared is trouble halved. "

" Management is nothing more than motivating other people. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "