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. Rick Wagoner Read Quote
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. Rick Wagoner Read Quote
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. Rick Wagoner Read Quote
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. Rick Wagoner Read Quote
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. Rick Wagoner Read Quote
A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain. Rick Wagoner Read Quote
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. Rick Wagoner Read Quote
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. Rick Wagoner Read Quote
The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they’re big and fast. Rick Wagoner Read Quote