Top 138 Motors Quotes & Sayings

Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, and big league Ford, General Motors, so many of them.

General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

General Motors spends more on health care than steel.

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

Even as a child I knew I wanted to be a singer, and in 1976, at the age of 20, I quit my job at Vauxhall Motors in Luton and became a musician.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

General Motors spends more on health care than steel

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.

I've got a fetish about motors on sail boats. Sailboats were meant to sail.

When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody would invent a chair or dish that smelled bad or that made horrible noises - why were motors invented noisy? How could they possibly be considered complete or successful inventions with this glaring defect? Unless, of course, the aggressive, hostile, assaultive sound actually served to express some impulse of the owner.

It was great to go to Stanford. Until that point, I'd spent my whole life in southeast Michigan, working for General Motors. I was in a different part of the country. People didn't know what General Motors was, didn't care, or if they did, they might not have had a favorable impression. I saw people driving nondomestic vehicles.

Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.

Motors that are vulnerable to shorting out because of snow ingestion should have snow filters installed over air intakes, and spare motors should be ready to replace any failed motors.

It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affected, that General Motors not go bankrupt.

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.

The one stock in my portfolio which I say hasn't worked yet but has the potential for a big home run is General Motors.

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

We're concerned with a powerful government who is telling General Motors now, maybe, what they can charge for their automobiles. Indeed, if the government owns 61 percent, they can do that.

When Hindustan Motors rolled out the first Ambassador Car in 1957 its sturdy body, rounded contours and Mother Earth simplicity immediately bagged it a place in our collective consciousness.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

What really went wrong is that General Motors has had this philosophy from the beginning that what's good for General Motors is good for the country. So, their attitude was, 'We'll build it and you buy it. We'll tell you what to buy. You just buy it.'

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.

General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

My dad was a trained carpenter and worked for Vauxhall Motors. We had money, though not a great deal.

It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.

There are two types of people-anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere and they're having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down.

My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.