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" I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out. "
Rick Wagoner
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" We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating. "
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" A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain. "
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" I was willing to go just about anywhere in the U.S. for the best job - except New York City. Of course, I received a job offer from GM - in New York City. "
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" Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street. "
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" It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions. "
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" I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand. "
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" On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have. "
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" Honestly, I can't tell you what I what I would be doing if I wasn't chairman of GM, because this is all I've done. "
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" There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now. "
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" This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too. "
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" Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning. "
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" Don't worry about planning every step of your life. "
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Every Step
Life
" I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world. "
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" Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system. "
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Wrong
" We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly. "
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" History shows you don't know what the future brings. "
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" The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast. "
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