General Motors Quotes

• 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.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Children, Government

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• When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

  Charles Kettering

  Feet, Achievement, Boss

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

  Ed Markey

  Years, Doe, Lasts

  "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2005.

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• 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.

  Bernie Mac

  Sports, Hate, Mean

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• The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

  Arthur Hailey

  Humor, President, Foul

  Arthur Hailey (2014). “Wheels”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Egypt, Groups

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• General Motors spends more on health care than steel

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Steel, Care, Health Care

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• I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Country, Might, Administration

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• Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

  Joe Biden

  Alive, Politics, Osama Bin Laden

  "Who’s Tough Enough?". DNC Speech, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.

  James Surowiecki

  Needs, Cyberspace, Should

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• You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

  Joe Biden

  Alive, Want, Littles

  "Obama dogged by negatives". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. September 5, 2012.

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, Dad, Littles

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Cities, Detroit, Theater

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

  Robert Orben

  Luck, Motor, Ifs

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

  John Bolton

  Running, Thinking, Campaigns

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• General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Ignorance, President, Apathy

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• If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.

  Benjamin Graham

  Common, Ownership, Share

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

  Richard Condon

  Order, Modern Life, Made

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• The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the last time he tried to get someone to quit, it took months -- and even then, he had to promise her a job as secretary of state. ... According to the government, Rick Wagoner was forced to resign because of poor performance. That's embarrassing -- run an organization that loses billions of dollars and then get fired by a guy who heads up an organization that loses trillions of dollars.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Jobs, Organization

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• No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Grandparent, Return, Privilege

  john kenneth galbraith (1971). “the new industrial state”

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• " many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."

  Paul A. Baran

  Independent, Shoes, Corporations

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 4, (p. 84), 1957.

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• What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.

  Barack Obama

  America, Damn, Be Good

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

  James A. Michener

  Men, Organization, Church

  "Poland" by James A. Michener, (p.587), 1983.

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• Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Years, Car, Wish

  "Footnote on Cinema". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 260, 1967.

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