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" 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.

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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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" 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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" 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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" We took our eye off the ball as a company. "

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" I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values. "

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" 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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" Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life. "

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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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" There are almost no limits in terms of what a car can become. "

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" My father didn't push me. "

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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 was an absolutely untalented designer. "

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" 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. "

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" At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people. "

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" I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. "

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" It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" S.U.V.'s are under a lot of scrutiny these days, and yet the S.U.V. buyer is a very loyal lot. "

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" I have no patience for wasting time. "

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" There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care. "

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" 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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" 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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" The Ford family wants the company to succeed. Period. "

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