G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. Quotes

• 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

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• History shows you don't know what the future brings.

  G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

  Shows, Asset Allocation, Knows

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• 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

  "Wagoner's words show how far we've come" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

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• 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

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• 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, Beats

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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