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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

It's always tough to stay at the top for so long.

There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you've got three other legs to stand on.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.