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Rick Wagoner Quotes
Rick Wagoner
American
Businessman
Born:
Feb 9
,
1953
About
Car
Done
Game
World
You
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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
Future
Great
Game
Aggressive
Marketplace
Does
Get
Improvement
Us
Play
Need
I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out.
Rick Wagoner
You
Win
Think
Out
About
Taking
Talk
Sure
History shows you don't know what the future brings.
Rick Wagoner
Future
History
You
Know
Shows
Brings
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
Today
You
Big
Out
Small
Beat
Check
NBA
Fast
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
Conversation
Remember
First
See
Pretty
Direct
Having
Head
Clearly
Budget
Got
Firsthand
Review
Huge
Began
Very
Get
Productivity
Manufacturing
Chance
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
You
Game
Job
Long
Too
Never
Retire
Until
Go
End
Person
Going
Next
Play
Playing
A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.
Rick Wagoner
Chapter
Pain
Other
Along
Come
Lot
End
Up
Which
Things
Basically
Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
Rick Wagoner
Behavior
Car
Sit
System
Kind
Generally
Wrong
Wrong Kind
Dealer
Built
Were
Encourages
Lots
Whole
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
Practice
Believe
Intervene
Rates
Exchange
Fair
Massive
Dollar
Japan
Them
Use
Regularly
Reserves
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
Meeting
Administration
Step
Course
Friday
Officials
CEO
Aside
Washington
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
You
Car
Value
Country
Big
Think
Ways
Fine
Emissions
Consumption
Making
Lot
Dent
Going
Oil
CO2
Electric
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
You
People
World
Behavior
Car
Seen
Consumer
Smaller
Combined
Around
Trade
Trade-Off
Affect
Off
Very
Efficient
Get
Move
Tax
Bigger
Fuel
Regulatory
Europe
Things
Gasoline
Desires
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
Education
Good
Wine
Some
Eater
Pretty
Some Things
Pretty Good
Like
Although
Cook
Good Cook
Now
Things
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