General Motors Quotes - Page 3

• Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Horse, People

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Years

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Past, Car

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

  Raymond Loewy

  Thinking, Benefits, Littles

  Raymond Loewy (2002). “Never Leave Well Enough Alone”, p.187, JHU Press

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• I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

  Ralph Nader

  Cities, People, Doe

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• Barack Obama's vision of America is one in which a President of the United States can fire the head of General Motors, tell banks how to bank, control the medical system and take charge of all sorts of other activities for which neither he nor other politicians have any expertise or experience.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fire, America, Vision

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• My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Strong, Goal, Path

  "GM CEO To Step Down As Company Posts Profit". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. August 12, 2010.

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• Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

  Ross Perot

  Change, Teaching, Elephants

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• Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.

  Tony Judt

  Home, Average, People

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin

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• Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Animal, Blood, Brain

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1887). “The Brain, Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically: The pituitary gland, the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata”

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• I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Power

  "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

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• 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.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Snakes, Words Of Wisdom

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• Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, and big league Ford, General Motors, so many of them.

  Donald Trump

  Moving, League, United States

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.

  Michael Parenti

  Military, Real, People

  Michael Parenti (1995). “Against Empire”, p.77, City Lights Books

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