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Rick Wagoner [1953-0] American

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Education	101
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.	Future	102
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.		103
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.		104
Don't worry about planning every step of your life.		105
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.		106
History shows you don't know what the future brings.		107
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.		108
Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.		109
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.		110
Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.		111
I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out.		112
The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.		113
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.		114
This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.		115
A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.		116
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.		117
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.		118
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.		119
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.		120

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