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" All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany. "
Think
True
America
" As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy. "
Gas
Water
Position
" As the technology is developed, autonomous driving could provide driving opportunities for the physically challenged or enable the elderly to continue driving longer. This will be vital as many nations experience an aging population. "
Driving
Experience
Technology
" At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people. "
Arts
Speak
People
" Cars will talk to each other and the world around them to make driving both safer and more efficient. 'Vehicle-to-vehicle' and 'vehicle-to-infrastructure' connectivity will become commonplace. "
World
Become
Driving
" Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life. "
Life
First
Everything
" I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. "
Cells
Believe
I Believe
" I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. "
Believe
I Believe
Force
" I bleed Ford blue. "
Ford
Bleed
Blue
" I don't care where you are in the world, people are aware of what technology is available to others. If you're in Nairobi, you're certainly aware of the iPhone. "
World
People
Care
" I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad. "
Bad
Good
My Own
" I don't know if a company can have a soul, but I like to think it can. "
Company
Like
Soul
" I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildren, to have to apologise for working for Ford Motor Company. In fact, I want the opposite. I want them to look and say, 'What a difference we made!' "
Say
Grandchildren
Employees
" I have no patience for wasting time. "
Wasting
Patience
Time
" I look at safety as, you know, there's active and passive. Passive is how do you survive a crash. Active is accident avoidance. And so that's real-time information to you, as a driver, and to your car, to the wheels of a car that will get you out of a bad situation. "
Look
Know
Car
" I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation. "
Money
End
Fame
" Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology. "
Internet
Technology
Successful
" I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter. "
Place
Proud
Us
" In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street. "
Time
Wall
Welcome
" I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with. "
Business
Thought
Think
" I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves. "
Good
Bad
Speak
" It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars. "
Well
Natural
Storage
" I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values. "
Company
Running
Square
" I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan. "
Management
Me
Window
" I was an absolutely untalented designer. "
Designer
Absolutely
" Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has started to pour into green energy, and I think that's wonderful. We're going to need that same kind of effort towards global gridlock if we're going to keep the individual mobility that we all take for granted today. "
Time
Green
Money
" Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come. "
Leadership
Best
Excellence
" Long commutes and traffic jams once associated with older, established cities such as London, New York or Tokyo are spreading throughout the world's emerging economies. "
Long
London
World
" Lyft is enabling an exciting new model of freedom and personal mobility, as evidenced by its millions of satisfied users. "
Satisfied
New
Model
" Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of the economy. "
Creation
Job
Economy
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