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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.
New
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Back
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" 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. "
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Place
Proud
Us
" 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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Say
Grandchildren
Employees
" I was an absolutely untalented designer. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Designer
Absolutely
" We took our eye off the ball as a company. "
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Company
Took
Our
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Driving
Experience
Technology
" 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
" 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. "
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World
People
Freedom
" 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.
Internet
Technology
Successful
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
People
Care
Worst
" You can take weight out of a car and truck and still make it very strong. "
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You
Truck
Take
" Lyft is enabling an exciting new model of freedom and personal mobility, as evidenced by its millions of satisfied users. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Satisfied
New
Model
" I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Believe
I Believe
Force
" 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.
Well
Run
Money
" 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
" As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Gas
Water
Position
" It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Well
Natural
Storage
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Look
Know
Car
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Ride
Environmental
Smart
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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.
Think
True
America
" The Ford family wants the company to succeed. Period. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Company
Ford
Succeed
" 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
" 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