Bob Lutz Quotes

#1. Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like] ... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

Bob Lutz

#2. The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#3. I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States is either directly or indirectly connected to the automobile industry. You just could not let these companies go down.

Bob Lutz

#4. In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody,

Bob Lutz

#5. There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today.

Bob Lutz

#6. You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Bob Lutz

#7. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he is going to run for governor on our program last night. My staff didn't know, Arnold's staff didn't know, I was shocked as everyone else. If he doesn't get elected governor, maybe he should work for the CIA. I mean, he can keep a secret better than they can.

Jay Leno

#8. There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#9. CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.

Bob Lutz

#10. People under 75 need more seasoning

Bob Lutz

#11. This tendency to defend a belief structure is true in all cases, even the rational. Never underestimate our ability to convince ourselves of what we wish to be true, especially if we have invested time and money in our beliefs.

Gudjon Bergmann

#12. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Bob Lutz

#13. By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.

Thomas Starr King

#14. One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

Bob Lutz

#15. Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.

Bob Lutz

#16. Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!

Mary Alice Monroe

#17. Why did I lose? No reason, though you might like to know that I got tired, my ears started popping, the rubber came off my shoes, I got cramp, and I lost one of my contact lenses. Other than that I was in great shape.

Bob Lutz

#18. What do you want in a female companion? What is the first thing that attracts you. Her ability to cook and keep house or is it the way she looks? It's not politically correct, GM hates it when I draw that analogy. But it's absolutely correct.

Bob Lutz

#19. Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

Bob Lutz

#20. I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

Prabal Gurung