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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the West. The dress-making business has become a regular science. What colour of dress will suit with the complexion of the girl and the colour of her hair, what special feature of her body should be disguised, and what displayed to the best advantage-these and many other like important points, the dressmakers have seriously to consider. Again, the dress that ladies of very high position wear, others have to wear also, otherwise they lose their caste! This is FASHION.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.

We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.

We can't be afraid to be weird.

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.

We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved

We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.

We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.

We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.