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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Management is nothing more than motivating other people. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. "

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

" The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. "