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.
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.
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
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?
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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.
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.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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.
We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.