My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I’ve taken that with me to every job. Mary Barra Read Quote
It was great to go to Stanford. Until that point, I’d spent my whole life in southeast Michigan, working for General Motors. I was in a different part of the country. People didn’t know what General Motors was, didn’t care, or if they did, they might not have had a favorable impression. I saw people driving nondomestic vehicles. Mary Barra Read Quote
When you look at the Chevrolet Volt, those customers are some of the most satisfied across the industry. Mary Barra Read Quote
When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team. Mary Barra Read Quote
I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering. Mary Barra Read Quote
My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him – just talking, because he was a car buff. Mary Barra Read Quote
My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that. Mary Barra Read Quote
When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that’s one of the things I think General Motors does really well. There’s a big population that buys our trucks. It’s their life – or it’s their livelihood. Not their lifestyle, their livelihood. It’s a work truck. Mary Barra Read Quote
Super Cruise will follow the lanes of the road, follow the speed you set, and you can be hands-off driving on an expressway. Mary Barra Read Quote
Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders. Mary Barra Read Quote
