John Devine Quotes

We continue to believe stock options are an appropriate and valuable part of compensation that encourages employees to focus on shareholder return. - John Devine

Very challenging, but we plan to get it done. - John Devine

This is our 11th quarter of year-to-year improvement in our earnings. For the auto business, that's a pretty good track record. - John Devine

This is Delphi's business and it's their call. We respect that. Delphi is very important to us. We obviously want to be as constructive as we can. That said, we're obviously going to do what's right for GM. - John Devine

There are things we can do. We did one of those today. Is that enough long term? Absolutely not. - John Devine

The private entrepreneur who is the heart of our system today will continue in the future. I don't think that's going to change. But there is obviously going to be a major change in a number of the parts of distribution. - John Devine

The inability to raise prices requires us to take even tougher measures to reduce costs. - John Devine

The four-wheelers should come up with 45 signatures and put it on the ballot. - John Devine

The cost reductions we've looked at are very tough to achieve. We're not doing it by cutting and slashing the business. We're growing it, doing the right things strategically and we're still getting the cost out. - John Devine

That's been going up in particular in the last couple of years. It's put a real drain on profitability, cash and a big dent in our balance sheet as a result of that. We think there is a potential for that to continue with health-care inflation the way it is. - John Devine

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