Graham Hawkes Quotes

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

There is a lot of development to be done at Toyota. It will be tough in the beginning, but the chances are very good, so that is why I decided on this team in the first place.

I'm always looking to move on to the next thing.

As a part of the Renault family, I want to develop the car and write new success stories.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.

I would say that if there is one thing we could have done better in the last 10 years under my watch, is when we launched what we called 'the new car.' It is now called the Gen-5. We just didn't get the collaboration we needed to get from the industry, the owners, the drivers, the engineers and car manufacturers.

Components are important in the evolution of cars, and there is increasing need for electronics.

I like to live in the future.

I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.

I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

I think there could be more experimentation if car companies didn't have to make such huge volumes. If you're making 300,000 vehicles, you have to play it safe. Ultimately, the companies want to make customized cars, and they are all working on ways to do that. Experiments with structural systems are usually about that.

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.