Businessman

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

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

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

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.

Kami di Chrysler meminjam uang dengan cara lama. Kami membayarnya kembali.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

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