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Don't worry about planning every step of your life.
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Every Step
Planning
Worry
Life Your Step
Step
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History shows you don't know what the future brings.
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Brings
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Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.
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Consolidation
Fine
Tuning
Model
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A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.
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Pain
Chapter
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The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.
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Nba
Beat
Check
Fast
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Honestly, I can't tell you what I what I would be doing if I wasn't chairman of GM, because this is all I've done.
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Honestly
Gm
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Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
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Dealer
Encourages
Generally
Wrong Kind
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We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.
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Agree
Blow
Time Start Always
Time Always Game
Whistle
Time Game Start
Debating
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There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.
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Good Cook
Wine
Although
Eater
Cook
Pretty Good
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We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.
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Japan
Massive
Reserves
Exchange
Dollar
Fair
Intervene
Rates
Regularly
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I was willing to go just about anywhere in the U.S. for the best job - except New York City. Of course, I received a job offer from GM - in New York City.
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New York City
Best City New
Gm
Received
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Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.
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Management
Two Way Street
Concept
Ford
Regional
Two-Way
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On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.
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Administration
Ceo
Friday
Officials
Aside
Washington
Gm
Meeting
Step
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All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.
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Aggressive
Improvement
Marketplace
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I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.
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Brazil
Great Idea
Great World Rest
Sergeant
Ignore
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It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.
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Co2
Consumption
Electric
Emissions
Dent
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I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.
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Conversation
Direct
Manufacturing
Productivity
Began
Budget
Clearly
Firsthand
Review
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What I've seen around the world is if the regulatory desires are combined with things that affect consumer behavior - such as in Europe, they tax gasoline very heavily - you do get people to move to very fuel efficient cars; trade off bigger vs. smaller cars.
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Behavior
Efficient
Fuel
Gasoline
Affect
Combined
Consumer
Desires
Regulatory
Smaller
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