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General Motors spends more on health care than steel. -- Kathleen Sebelius
With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal! -- Robert Orben
I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering. -- Mary Barra
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. -- Mary Barra
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. -- Godfrey Reggio
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. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
I've watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of complex machines, effectively transforming consumer choice from supply-driven to demand-driven. -- Bre Pettis
It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed. -- Tina Brown
There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex. -- Michael Moore
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. -- C. Wright Mills
A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree. -- Arthur Smith
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. -- Charles Erwin Wilson
For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars. -- Alex Berenson
My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line. -- Michael Moore
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. -- James Surowiecki
I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it. -- Bernie Mac
You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! -- Joe Biden
Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore. -- Bob Beauprez
First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun. -- Dan Jenkins
Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck. -- Richard Condon
General Motors spends more on health care than steel -- Kathleen Sebelius
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. -- Arthur Hailey
Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive. -- Joe Biden
General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years. -- Harlow Curtice
General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it. -- Ralph Nader
What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors. -- Barack Obama
Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada. -- Charles E. Wilson
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors. -- John Bolton
If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under. -- James Woods
Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year. -- Ed Markey
We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government. -- Glenn Beck
Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself. -- George Carlin
Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs. -- Charles E. Wilson
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking. -- Ross Perot
The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years. -- Will Rogers
General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. -- Mark Steyn
General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power. -- Herbert M. Shelton
No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer. -- Raymond Loewy
I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car. -- Humphrey Bogart
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
Motors that are vulnerable to shorting out because of snow ingestion should have snow filters installed over air intakes, and spare motors should be ready to replace any failed motors. -- Robert James Thomson
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest. -- James A. Michener
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. -- Mike Bouchard
I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's. I will never be a Mrs. Blabidyblah! -- Stephanie Zimbalist
My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line. -- Joe Biden
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million. -- Benjamin Graham
Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them. -- Will Rogers
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. -- Leonard Woodcock
Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals. -- Michael Parenti
many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation. -- Paul A. Baran
So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.' -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does. -- Ralph Nader
The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate. -- bell hooks
And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress. -- Leonard Woodcock
What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.' -- Michael Moore
Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than Â£250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car. -- Kenneth Tynan
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. -- Wilbur Wright
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward. -- James Dyson
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury. -- Ernie Pyle
The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off. -- Hod Lipson
Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing. -- Joel Kinnaman
The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs. -- Vint Cerf
If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life. -- Henrik Fisker
Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32. -- David Hanson
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. -- Richard Prince
Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles. -- George Bailey
To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition -- Henry Ford
But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects. -- Brian Henson
And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years. -- Chris Anderson
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand. -- Alexander Calder
One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe. -- Erich Warsitz
I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes. -- Ross Perot
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things. -- Nick Park
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic? -- Noto

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