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Rick Wagoner

"Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system."

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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."

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"To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely."

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"Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."

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"Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening's engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing, till the last moment, where it was to take her."

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"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."

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"Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually."

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"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."

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"Politeness is organized indifference."

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"You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you."

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"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."

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"We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out."
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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."
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"History shows you don't know what the future brings."
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