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General Motors Quotes
On the company that shaped an industry.
These General Motors quotes reflect firsthand experience, from a first job as a quality inspector checking fits between hoods and fenders, to years spent working for the company in southeast Michigan.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
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When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General Motors official called the costliest of all jurisdictions where GM operates.
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Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.
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I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.
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When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that's one of the things I think General Motors does really well. There's a big population that buys our trucks. It's their life - or it's their livelihood. Not their lifestyle, their livelihood. It's a work truck.
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My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.
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It was great to go to Stanford. Until that point, I'd spent my whole life in southeast Michigan, working for General Motors. I was in a different part of the country. People didn't know what General Motors was, didn't care, or if they did, they might not have had a favorable impression. I saw people driving nondomestic vehicles.
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And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.
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I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.
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Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.
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Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
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We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
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My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.
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Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
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