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We have to succeed, so we will.
Written reports stifle creativity.
Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.
Business is a cobweb of human relationships
In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'
Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.
Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.
If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.
Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.
A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.
Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.
I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.
The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.
It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.
If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.
The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.
One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.
If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
[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.
Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.