David Healy Quotes

"It might be a slight negative to the auto business if it distracts them from their plans. He's trying to stir up the pot to make more money for Kerkorian."

"The market has developed massively over the past five years; this is where the action is and where the growth is coming from."

"I would not imagine there is any danger of any of our players freezing. They play at play at a good level and are solid players."

"We can take some confidence from the result against Azerbaijan."

"I think that's highly unlikely, ... I think they will probably negotiate an agreement with the union to reduce health care costs this year."

"While the (health-care) deal is a positive, they have several other challenges. They are losing too much market share. They have too many plants, too many people and too many models."

"It's strange. I don't even know about friends, what they think about me, ... You don't really know who you can trust."

"Anyone who was surprised by Toyota's forecast has been living on another planet."

"GM would be advised to give him that board seat before he makes more trouble and becomes more of a nuisance,"

"Hertz has become less and less important as an outlet for Ford cars as Ford has pared back sales to Hertz and other daily rental companies. It's really a non-core business right now."

"Half of his pay is dependent on the performance of the company, so that looks pretty reasonable relative to the pay of other CEOs at big companies. It probably doesn't look reasonable to the guy who just got laid off."

"It's a list of housekeeping items. I hate to disappoint the people who want to panic over all this."

"The fleet sales that inflated the January results will probably diminish for GM, Ford and Chrysler. There's three reasons why their market-share has declined: product, product and product."

"Sales weakened as the month went along. I think we’re heading for a September/October slump as the huge effects of the employee-discount sales wear off, and you get into the payback period."

"I don't think they could have been locked in a room 24/7 over the past week and come up with this retirement agreement without coming closer to an understanding on the Delphi wage situation."

"Imports and transplants have eaten Detroit's lunch and are beginning to nibble at its dinner as well."

"You have an earnings penalty and a cash benefit, neither of which is overwhelming."

"In an environment where nobody's earning raises, if they turn the company around, they get rewarded."

"They were pretty much as expected in North America. Where they made gains was in better operating margins in Europe. Given that the market-share numbers in Europe are available and pretty unimpressive, it must be on the cost side."

"The changes seem to reflect Bill Ford's impatience with the turnaround in North America,"