“Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.” IfsWholeAirLandPercentNinePlanesEnginesPilotsNinetyNinety NineParachutesUp In The Air Author:Cory Lidle
“While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.” KnowsLongNationsNaturalMediaCarMovementPercentIncludingNuclearAlternativesDependentGasInternalsZeroRealisticEnginesSavagesGod KnowsAutomobileTransportationHybridGasolineHydrogenNatural GasCombustionPanaceaBovinePropane Author:Brock Yates
“European carmakers pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent from 1995 to 2008. We kept our word and reduced the value even more. This is not the result of short-term gimmickry. We decided years ago to develop the relevant models and engines, otherwise we wouldn't be able to offer them today.” YearsTodayAbleValuesTermResultsOffersModelsPercentYears AgoDecidedEnginesRelevantShort TermEmissionsOur WordsCo2Co2 Emissions Author:Norbert Reithofer
“I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.” MayStatesGrowthUnitedCompanyUnited StatesPercentEnginesMultinationalsDiversification Author:Laurence D. Fink
“I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.” StillsTwoBuildingPercentIncreaseCoveredEnginesAirplaneEarningChairmanTwo Days Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt
“There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.” YearsDoneCompanyVisionTechnologyStudyCenturyIndustryCouplePercentEntrepreneurInternalsEnginesSixty20th CenturyAutomobileCombustionAutomobile Industry Author:Eric Ries