Mary Barra Quotes

#1. Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

Yvon Chouinard

#2. Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Sophie Swetchine

#3. My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

Mary Barra

#4. We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

Toussaint Louverture

#5. Like so many of the current Chelsea team, Zola is unique.

Barry Venison

#6. When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.

Mary Barra

#7. Don't confuse progress with winning.

Mary T. Barra

#8. What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

Mary Barra

#9. 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

#10. Not everything needs changing. Some things need protecting. And that can be just as important, challenging and rewarding as changing the world.

Mary T. Barra

#11. I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.

Mary Barra

#12. You believe in God? Believe also in your imagination.

Neville Goddard

#13. My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Mary Barra

#14. Sometimes it's hard to predict who will make a person happy. But in the end, that's what matters.

Kody Keplinger

#15. My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.

Mary Barra

#16. Beirut has survived for thousands and thousands of years by spreading her beautiful legs for every army within smelling distance.

Rabih Alameddine

#17. In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

Hu Shih

#18. The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#19. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one way only, and that way is treacherous and hard. And if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.

Neil Gaiman

#20. 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