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" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Management
Me
Window
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" I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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Running
Square
" 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. "
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Know
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" When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well. "
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Money
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Place
Proud
Us
" 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. "
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Time
Green
Money
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
World
Become
Driving
" As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy. "
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Gas
Water
Position
" What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football? "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Football
Grow Up
American
" When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing freedom of mobility to people around the world. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
World
People
Freedom
" We took our eye off the ball as a company. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Company
Took
Our
" There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Great
World
People
" 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. "
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Driving
Experience
Technology
" The day will come when the notion of car ownership becomes antiquated. If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Day
Car
City
" The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose... We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval. "
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Way
Stand
Doing
" I have no patience for wasting time. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Wasting
Patience
Time
" I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Cells
Believe
I Believe
" Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Life
First
Everything
" I was an absolutely untalented designer. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Designer
Absolutely
" I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Bad
Good
My Own
" One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Healthy
Find
Economy
" One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me. "
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My Life
Growing Up
Management
" Whenever I'm at a party, people are always telling me either to get a new quarterback or make the Taurus back seat bigger. "
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New
Always
Back
" I bleed Ford blue. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Ford
Bleed
Blue
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Business
Thought
Think
" Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology. "
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Internet
Technology
Successful
" 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. "
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Leadership
Best
Excellence
" 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. "
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Good
Bad
Speak
" The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial. "
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Still
View
Who
" S.U.V.'s are under a lot of scrutiny these days, and yet the S.U.V. buyer is a very loyal lot. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Lot
Loyal
Very
" There are almost no limits in terms of what a car can become. "
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Almost
Become
Car