George Peterson Quotations

We've also discussed the possibility of a swimming pool at the school. Who knows. We are taking it one day at a time.

She got a very bad feeling about him and had to walk away -- she could not listen to him, ... I think he certainly is someone that the police have put a high degree of scrutiny upon and probably deservedly so.

Owners of recently purchased new cars and trucks will start receiving these surveys within a few days. With the recent economic issues and the surge of new products introduced in recent months, we're eager to see what car and truck owners have to say about their rides.

We're waiting now to see who blinks first. If Delphi shuts down it brings GM to its knees because GM has no secondary sources to fill the parts pipeline it needs to keep going.

When the time is right, we will make a statement, so I ask that you please give the family their space and privacy at this point.

Toyota is kind of a scary mix of a hugely strong financial company and a great product development company supported by an excellent sales arm. They are really tough to stop.

There are 64 million people in the U.S. who will be getting drivers' licenses in the next 10 years.

You are probably talking a $10,000 per vehicle profit on a full-size Chevy Tahoe, $15,000 on the larger Chevy Suburban and $25,000 on the luxury Cadillac Escalade SUV. That's real money and a real contributor to GM losing money in the quarter.

You can kind of read between the lines on that one.

It wouldn't be unexpected that those products wouldn't launch as strongly as otherwise.

They should continue to lose money. How much depends on how quickly they implement their turnaround plans, but they won't make money until they get their costs down to operate at above break-even levels, and they aren't at that point yet.

A lot of people have gone to the Japanese, and it'll be tough for the domestics to get them back.

It's absolutely what we'd have expected from Toyota. It's absolutely competitive.

It's like making a Christmas wish list -- a list if it happens .

It looks like a good third of people would consider a hybrid next time they buy.

It's scary in a good way. We really cannot count on it, but if it does happen, it would be unbelievable -- how we could help our district.

The average Buick buyer is 69, the oldest demographic in the industry, and there aren't many new buyers coming in to replace them.

It's what most savvy Fortune 500 chairmen would do. Everyone expected GM would look bad, and (GM Chairman Rick) Wagoner figured it couldn't look any worse so he pulled ahead bad news for 2006 into 2005.

It took the Japanese 20 years to understand this market and build appropriate cars.

Honda has always been known as the cuddly environmentalist car company, and Toyota has kind of stolen that mantle from them. It would make sense that Honda is trying to broaden its hybrid selection.

The challenge for these automakers will be to match the appeal of the Mini, ... That's a car you're proud to own and it's fun to drive, with tremendous visual appeal that strikes a chord with just about everyone.