1 Jerry Flint Quotes

"Jerry Flint" was a senior automotive editor for Forbes magazine, continuing as a columnist his official retirement in 1996 until his death.

Flint also wrote articles for a variety of media, including Ward's AutoWorld, with whom he continued until his death, from a stroke on August 7, 2010. He was sometimes known as "The Senator," and often as the dean of automotive journalism, one of the few in the media whom even senior-level industry leaders would seek out—which often meant listening to Flint tell them how little they knew, or much they had gotten wrong. That was never more apparent than when he addressed a group of General Motors managers, in early 2001. “GM executives,” he declared, “don’t seem to understand that the art of the auto business is building desirable vehicles, not killing models and closing plants.” Nearly a decade before the giant automaker, long the world’s largest, went bankrupt, Flint told them, “You are badly led, with an organization that doesn’t work.”