100+ Auto Industry Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "One of the best things about Warren Buffett is that he's not afraid to let things die" by Joshua Brown, www.businessinsider.com. March 02, 2015.

topic: Horse, Decision, One Line, Auto Industry

The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Beautiful, Dream, Car, American Cars, Auto Industry

IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you're talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

- Ratan Tata

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Auto Industry

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

- Adam Osborne

topic: People, Giving, Car, Auto Industry

I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.

- John Boehner

source: "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 23, 2008.

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Important, Auto Industry

A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.

- Jennifer Granholm

topic: Jobs, Sacrifice, Numbers, Auto Industry

I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

- Chris Paine

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Thinking, Views, Long, Electric Car, Good Decision

Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.

- Charles Landry

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Cities, Creative, Intellectual, Suppliers, Auto Industry

I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.

- Rick Santorum

source: Rick Santorum during Republican debate at the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, time.com. November 11, 2015.

topic: Believe, Corporations, Should, Bailing Out, Auto Industry

I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama Announces GM, Chrysler Restructuring Plan (FULL TEXT)", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

topic: Recovery, Cutting, Government, Red Tape, Regions

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

- Rahm Emanuel

topic: Jobs, War, Fall, Auto Industry

Bill Ford, Jr., is somebody who wants to move this industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.

- Jennifer Granholm

source: "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 31, 2009.

topic: Moving, Independent, Oil, Foreign Oil, Auto Industry

We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.

- Richard Trumka

topic: Jobs, America, Support, Auto Industry

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Car, Sloth, Desire, Challenging Status Quo, Challenging The Status Quo

What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'

- Henry Paulson

topic: Thinking, Important, Said, Auto Industry

With autonomous cars, you're gonna see more consolidation. Once we have transport modules, you order off the phone and brands won't matter anymore. When brands don't matter, the auto industry ends. It's got another 20 years.

- Bob Lutz

source: Source: www.caranddriver.com

topic: Phones, Order, Years, Consolidation, Auto Industry

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

- James Surowiecki

topic: Safety, Environmental, Disaster, Auto Industry

You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel...

- Ted Danson

topic: Oil, Fuel, Energy, Oil Companies, Auto Industry

Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs.

- Jennifer Granholm

topic: Country, Jobs, Needs, Auto Industry

I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.

- Fred Upton

topic: Government, Car, Choices, Warranty, Delegation

If you were charged with fixing the U.S. auto industry, how would you do it? The guys who run the auto companies are out of touch with their customers and their employees. They ride to work in their limousines. They go up in their elevators and lock themselves in their offices. They don't walk out into the plants. They wouldn't even drive in the neighborhoods where their employees live. They give themselves big bonuses when the company isn't making any money. I'd make them get involved with the people who are building the cars. They've got to become real people.

- Ken Hendricks

topic: Running, Real, Giving, Limousines, Auto Industry

We commend GM for being the first out of the starting gate in the Great Plug-In Car Race of 2007. GM's announcements are the biggest victories yet for CalCars.org and other PHEV advocates. Now our campaign is in third gear. We'll work with the auto industry, government, fleet buyers and advocates to get to the day -- soon, not in a decade -- when customers can buy PHEVs as easily as any other car.

- Felix Kramer

topic: Race, Government, Car, Auto Industry

I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.

- Robert James Thomson

topic: Light, Wish, Dashboards, Auto Industry

Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. I also want to reign in the excesses of Johnson Controls that we bailed out when they were an autoparts company, and we saved the auto industry, and now they want to avoid paying taxes.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Wall, Agreement, Want, Auto Industry

The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.

- Elon Musk

source: "Exclusive Q & A with Elon Musk on the Tesla Roadster and the future of EVs". Interview with Sebastian Blanco, www.autoblog.com. July 26, 2006.

topic: Mean, Technology, Electric Vehicles, Tesla, Carbon Emissions

When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.

- Bell Hooks

source: Source: nefac.net

topic: Men, Thinking, Southern, Migrant Workers, Closing Down

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

- Tom Allen

topic: Stupid, Entrepreneur, Cost, Auto Industry, Health Care Costs

Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the United States to the brink of another Great Depression. When we spoke with the new president in March of 2009, the economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month, the government was throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at failing banks, and the auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Politically pummeled from all sides, Obama did his best to keep a sense of humor.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Jobs, War, Home, Auto Industry