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" Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of the economy. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Creation
Job
Economy
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I bleed Ford blue. "
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Bleed
Blue
" I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad. "
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Bad
Good
My Own
" I don't know if a company can have a soul, but I like to think it can. "
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Company
Like
Soul
" 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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Money
" You can take weight out of a car and truck and still make it very strong. "
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You
Truck
Take
" I have no patience for wasting time. "
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Wasting
Patience
Time
" One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period. "
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Healthy
Find
Economy
" We took our eye off the ball as a company. "
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Company
Took
Our
" 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. "
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Management
Me
Window
" 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
" There are almost no limits in terms of what a car can become. "
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Almost
Become
Car
" 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
Environmental
Smart
" I was an absolutely untalented designer. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Designer
Absolutely
" 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
" 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. "
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Think
True
America
" Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life. "
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Life
First
Everything
" 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
" 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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Look
Know
Car
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Long
London
World
" 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. "
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Time
Wall
Welcome
" At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people. "
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Arts
Speak
People
" The Ford family wants the company to succeed. Period. "
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Company
Ford
Succeed
" 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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Well
Run
Money
" 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