General Motors Quotes

What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what’s good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, ‘We’ll build it and you buy it. We’ll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.’

I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that’s one of the things I think General Motors does really well. There’s a big population that buys our trucks. It’s their life – or it’s their livelihood. Not their lifestyle, their livelihood. It’s a work truck.

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel – there are certain just spectacular landmarks – it’s an honor; it’s really an honor.

It’s Obama‘s bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.

It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affected, that General Motors not go bankrupt.

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.

Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government‘s bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama ‘saved-or-created’ in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they’d bust it to Corporal!

We’re concerned with a powerful government who is telling General Motors now, maybe, what they can charge for their automobiles. Indeed, if the government owns 61 percent, they can do that.

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else‘s… I will never be a ‘Mrs. Blabidyblah!’

For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company‘s share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

There’s only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the – it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

When I go to Lockheed or General Motors… all those union members are gun owners. They believe in responsible gun ownership and responsible gun safety, but all those guys are gun owners, and that’s not necessarily an issue in New Jersey.

My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.

General Motors spends more on health care than steel.

My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

The one stock in my portfolio which I say hasn’t worked yet but has the potential for a big home run is General Motors.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can’t even run our own government.

What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

If General Motors can’t survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.