Profits are the ultimate measure of how efficiently we provide customers with the best products for their needs. Profits are required to survive and grow.

The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

The beauty of life does not reside in certainty or conformity. It resides in the infinite possibilities of uncertainty.

Creativity is impossible unless existing rules are broken. Let's break some.

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

Some people want to feel comfortable when they're performing; I'm kind of the opposite.

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

We had a dog, Apples. He was 13 years old, toothless, blind and had the worst breath this side of Jabba the Hut. But he was the sweetest dog, and I cried and cried when he died.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

My strokes just weren't there.