G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Friday #Administration #Steps
Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Europe #Two #Done
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.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Games #Play #Doe
Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Giving Up #Passion #Challenges
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.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Believe #Japan #Practice
History shows you don't know what the future brings.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Shows
The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Nba #Today #Bigs
A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Pain #Ends #Chapters
Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

#Car #Kind #Behavior

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.
I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
I'm going to go out Monday through Friday and work hard and try to help this team win, because God knows we need a win.
Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.
My administration doesnâ€™t have any secrets, and from now on, neither will you.
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. famous quotes

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