Wagoner Quotes

#1. I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.

Johnny Gimble

#2. Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm ... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

G. Richard Wagoner Jr.

#3. If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

Groucho Marx

#4. It was 5:45pm when I decided my future. By 9:43 I was well on my way to making it all come true. At 11:16 I took the first step to make it a reality. At 11:17 I fell and found peace.

Brynn Myers

#5. What I've seen around the world is if the regulatory desires are combined with things that affect consumer behavior - such as in Europe, they tax gasoline very heavily - you do get people to move to very fuel efficient cars; trade off bigger vs. smaller cars.

Rick Wagoner

#6. 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.

Rick Wagoner

#7. Honestly, I can't tell you what I what I would be doing if I wasn't chairman of GM, because this is all I've done.

Rick Wagoner

#8. The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.

Mariama Ba

#9. You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.

Vincent Tan

#10. The way he looked back at her made her feel wide open, like every thought must be closed-captioned on her face.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Rick Wagoner

#12. It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a lot of ways, but it's not going to have a big dent in oil consumption in the country, or CO2 emissions.

Rick Wagoner

#13. I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out.

Rick Wagoner

#14. Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.

Michelle Chamuel

#15. 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.

Rick Wagoner

#16. I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing ... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

Rick Wagoner

#17. Don't worry about planning every step of your life.

Rick Wagoner

#18. The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

Rick Wagoner

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

Rick Wagoner

#20. 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.

Rick Wagoner

#21. I was willing to go just about anywhere in the U.S. for the best job - except New York City. Of course, I received a job offer from GM - in New York City.

Rick Wagoner

#22. Yoga really helped with stress relief and just not hurting myself when I tour. It really was super helpful.

John Feldmann

#23. 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.

Rick Wagoner

#24. Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

#25. 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.

Rick Wagoner

#26. History shows you don't know what the future brings.

Rick Wagoner

#27. There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.

Rick Wagoner

#28. Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.

Rick Wagoner

#29. All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

Rick Wagoner

#30. A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

Rick Wagoner