I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that.

This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities.

No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

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.

None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.'

TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.

This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities.

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

When I went into GM there was a lack of morale. The company had gone bankrupt and the people who worked there were embarrassed. Underneath all of, though, there was a will to show what they were capable of, but nobody knew exactly what to do.

I was never my favourite subject.

The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.

I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.

The Gypsies are a litmus test not of democracy but of civil society.

I do believe deeply that all human beings male and female are sexual beings most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

I eat egg whites a lot. Aside from that I eat everything. I try to avoid too much oily food but I do eat carbs. I have to have a balanced diet.

Your mind sparks, your soul sparkles, your peace is counterpoint to the clamor of life, you are a magnificent gift to the world.

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

When you tolerate mediocrity, you get more of it.

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.

I'm young at heart and dress accordingly.

Its similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten when you want to squeeze it so hard youd kill it...