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" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Long
London
World
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" 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!' "
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" I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. "
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" Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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" Whenever I'm at a party, people are always telling me either to get a new quarterback or make the Taurus back seat bigger. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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" I was an absolutely untalented designer. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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" One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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" Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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Run
Money
" There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout. "
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Ride
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Smart
" I bleed Ford blue. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Ford
Bleed
Blue
" When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Alone
Consequences
Late
" 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
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
My Life
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" At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Arts
Speak
People
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Leadership
Best
Excellence
" I have no patience for wasting time. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Wasting
Patience
Time
" My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaws amplified by limited education, limited social range, and questionable influence from some of his advisers. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Drive
Vision
Man
" Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Life
First
Everything
" 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. "
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World
Become
Driving
" 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
" I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Cells
Believe
I Believe
" The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial. "
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Still
View
Who
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Time
Green
Money
" There are almost no limits in terms of what a car can become. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Almost
Become
Car
" I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Bad
Good
My Own
" The Ford family wants the company to succeed. Period. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Company
Ford
Succeed
" 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. "
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Thought
Think
" 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. "
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Day
Car
City
" Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of the economy. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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Job
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