The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.
Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.
Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
We have to succeed, so we will.
Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.
Written reports stifle creativity.
You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.
Business is a cobweb of human relationships
[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.
Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.
