Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.