All this improvement is great, but all t... by Rick Wagoner

Leadership Future Scandal Resignation CEO

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

Other quotes by Rick Wagoner

Will

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

- Rick Wagoner

Time

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

Today

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

Management Now

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

Idea Rest Nothing World

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

Behavior Wrong

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

- Rick Wagoner

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