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The Bears need to let me be GM.
I haven't gotten any calls to run GM.
I never get into the game of playing GM.
Any good GM wants to field phone calls from his peers.
We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.
I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.
It's time to get the FDA to reverse its 1994 decision not to label GM foods.
I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.
Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.
We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.
When the correct tests are done, GM products are as safe as their non-GM counterparts.
I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.
I think the coach, the owner, the GM, the players want to win the game. That's the bottom line.
It's a tough job to be the owner in a rebuild, to be the GM, to be the coach. These are tough jobs.
GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.
As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
I thought about possibly being in the front office, being on the management side of things like a GM one day.
I've tried so far to learn as much as possible. I think I've got a good grasp of what a hockey GM needs to do.
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.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.
My friends call me 'George,' 'GM,' or 'Georgia.' But most people who know me from when I was little call me 'Georgia May.'
I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.
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.
I came out of a blue-collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work.
I think that's awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.
WWE is my home, and I will always stay with the WWE in some part, whether it's an ambassador, or maybe one day you'll see Nikki Bella as a GM, and no one can touch me.
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.
When I play '2K,' I'll play in GM mode. And I choose different teams. But I always trade for myself because I'm unstoppable. Literally there's no way to stop me in '2K.'
The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.
Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.
I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.
I ended up staying 10 years in Boston. It was nine as GM but 10 years there. That seemed about right: long enough to try to make a difference and try to contribute to winning teams and some championships.
So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.'
I'm very interested one day in becoming a GM. I have a lot to learn and need to put some work in. But down the road at some point, under the right circumstances, it's definitely something I'm interested in pursuing.
Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.
Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General Motors official called the costliest of all jurisdictions where GM operates.
The biggest thing in this game - to last - is to have belief in yourself. Because when the owner stops believing in you and the GM stops believing in you and the coaches stop believing in you, sometimes all you have is yourself.
Everyone mentions the fact that I am the first African GM. I think it means nothing unless you impact people in Africa. That's what we're trying to try to continue to do - impact the game and make an impact on people over there.
It would be silly not to admit that there are some sections of the public who are unconvinced by the benefits or have doubts about the motives behind it. We have to be clear that GM is not all about profits for multinational companies.
I'm a competitive guy, very. I don't like saying that about myself but people in the locker room say that about me. But I'm a competitive person and the GM, the coaches, those guys, they wouldn't like it if I was happy not to be playing.
My whole thing is being a coach, a GM, and a president: you all got to be attached at the hip. There's got to be no separation between you. The players got to know it's one voice: we're all in this together; we're going to do this right.
We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
When I went into GM there was a lack of morale. The company had gone bankrupt and the people who worked there were embarrassed. Underneath all of, though, there was a will to show what they were capable of, but nobody knew exactly what to do.
Lyft is focused on the customer - the driver - as GM is. I've talked many times about our goal being, 'How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?' It's a very common goal of putting the customer first.
Detroit is a great deli city. If only GM could learn from what the delis in Detroit are doing! The best rye bread anywhere - double-baked, crispy, warm rye that they serve their sandwiches with - and great corned beef. It's a passionate deli town.
Making the leap from Monsanto's business practices - whatever you may think of them - to the 'dangers' of GM foods is a mistake in logical reasoning. It is akin to saying landscape paintings are potentially evil because the painter was a serial killer.
Tear away fantasy football's fraternal facade and you discover it's built on megalomaniacal anarchy. Its subliminal message: Forget the team you've always rooted for. You be the owner and the GM. You pick and control the players. You be the star, Joe (and Jill) Nobody.