Martin Winterkorn Quotes

2008 was a good - a very successful year for Volkswagen.

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare.

For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.

Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.

Companies become rich because they find a way to serve others better. And if someone at your company is not serving your customers, it hurts more than your company; it hurts America.

I have no problem with money coming in and spawning competition. I am honest enough to admit that Mahindra & Mahindra would not have been going to the IITs and doing research if there was no competition.

In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things they talk about is the desire to find 'the new pizza.' This means a new mass-market product that can be made quickly and eaten both on the premises and as a takeaway.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

Television networks are a lot like automobile manufacturers or anyone else who's in commerce. If something out there catches on with the public... I guess you can call it 'market research.'

The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction

Competition is always there.

When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.

Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.