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" You can take weight out of a car and truck and still make it very strong. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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" I don't know if a company can have a soul, but I like to think it can. "
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" I don't care where you are in the world, people are aware of what technology is available to others. If you're in Nairobi, you're certainly aware of the iPhone. "
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" One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period. "
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" 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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" 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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" I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. "
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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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" I have no patience for wasting time. "
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" Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life. "
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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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" The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial. "
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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 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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" 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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" I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values. "
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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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" 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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" I bleed Ford blue. "
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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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" There are almost no limits in terms of what a car can become. "
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" 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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" 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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" Lyft is enabling an exciting new model of freedom and personal mobility, as evidenced by its millions of satisfied users. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad. "
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" I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation. "
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