Maryann Keller Quotations

We've never been in a market like this, where gasoline prices are cheap. It's a world that's very hostile to small cars.

Frankly, shareholders did not believe the dividend was secure.

(GM and Ford) have now sucked up all of the available customers through year-end with their employee pricing scheme. And with gasoline, even though it has come down from its highs, at current prices people are sufficiently concerned about heating their homes and putting gas in their car that they're going to buy more sensibly, and they're not going to buy big sport utility vehicles.

When a company is bleeding as much cash as General Motors is, cutting the dividend seems to be sort of an obvious thing. They should not have waited until the world is literally screaming, 'Why you are paying over a billion dollars of cash when you are bleeding cash?

When Mark Fields and Anne Stevens took over it was clear the baton had been passed to another generation.

Could it really hit 20%? Yeah, it could really hit 20.

First of all, it's not absolutely certain they will get a deal.

These were people who grew up inside those companies. They had to have a degree of loyalty to continually provide components at what would be a money losing proposition for them.

These were people who grew up inside those companies,

This is a perfect storm for the auto industry.

It seems like the rest of the world has figured it out. When are they going to figure it out? When are they going to declare a crisis and start running a company as though it is in a crisis?

It's a piggy bank, and every month they shake money out of it, ... Eventually, you have to start putting cash back into the piggy bank.

It's obvious to everybody what is necessary and what has to get done, ... What is less obvious is whether or not the company itself has the intestinal fortitude to do it and whether they have the bench strength to do it.