Quotes by Alan Mulally - Page 2

There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.
Alan Mulally / Engineer
Global Economy
No Reason
Proof
Compete
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We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.
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Economy
Global Economy
Global
Important Part
Interdependent
One Country
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I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.
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Asian
Bird
Cycles
Flu
Meltdown
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Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.
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Dropping
Slowing
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The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.
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Currency
Determine
Letting
Most Important Thing
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Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.
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Humor
Environment
Safe
Expense
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Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.
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Leadership
Compelling
Comprehensive
Implementation
People
Relentless
Together
Vision
Working Together
Leadership Together People
Vision Together People
Leadership Vision People
Talented
Working
Having
Plan
Talented People
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If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.
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Common
Environment
Fixed
Purpose
Succeed
Help
Help Others
Problems
Quickly
Which
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Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.
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Committed
Improving
Participate
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The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.
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No Regrets
Sustainable
Ford
Most Important Thing
Regrets
Worldwide
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I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.
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Following
Review
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I don't see anything changing about our desire for quality and fuel efficiency and safety and smart design, no matter what the vehicle size.
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Quality
Design
Desire
Fuel
Safety
Size
Smart
Vehicle
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We've always loved the automobile, and we all love Henry Ford's original vision to open the highways to all mankind, the freedom and movement.
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Automobile
Highways
Mankind
Movement
Vision
Love Freedom Always
Original
Open
Loved
Ford
Henry
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Everybody cares about not only quality and functionality, but they also want the power of choice, whether it's a small vehicle or a large vehicle.
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Functionality
Vehicle
Cares
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Ford is committed to building a sustainable future for the benefit of all Americans, and we believe Ford is on the right path to achieve this vision.
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Committed
Right Path
All Americans
Benefit
Sustainable
Ford
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At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.
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Behaviors
Conversations
Ford
Meeting
Stays
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All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.
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Great Things
Touching
Great People Doing
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The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.
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Reasonable
Wasting
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More and more people realize the importance of economic growth, near-term and long-term in the U.S., and the competitiveness with other countries around the world.
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Competitiveness
Economic Growth
Importance
Long Term
Other Countries
More People
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I had a great life at Boeing. I'd been there for 37 years and contributed to all the Boeing airplanes as a designer: the 707, 727, 37, 47, 57, 67 and 'triple 7' and the 87.
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Airplane
Designer
Great Life
Triple
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With Sync technology, we're seamlessly connected to the Internet, hands-free, and able to focus on the road but also able to handle guidance and navigation and play your music.
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Connected
Guidance
Handle
Navigation
Sync
Seamlessly
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Ford had a number of different strategies over the years that they thought obviously made sense at the time, just like all the different brands, and also the regional operations.
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Brands
Operations
Ford
Regional
Strategies
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The similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It's all about safe and efficient transportation using the latest technology and the best fuel efficiency.
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Airplane
Efficient
Fuel
Transportation
Automobiles
Latest
Similarities
Striking
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As we develop our energy policies in the United States to generate our energy clean, then I think we're going to really move to a world that all of us want, and that is a sustainable future.
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Future World Energy
Sustainable
Generate
Policies
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It's just really important that we have boundaries and guidelines to operate. Our homes, the cars, everything is going to be on the Internet. And so what are the guidelines? What do we want?
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Boundaries
Guidelines
Homes
Operate
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My favorite expression is a tag line or an advertising and marketing campaign that Ford ran a number of years ago. They ran it for almost 12 years, and it was, 'Have you driven a Ford lately?'
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Advertising
Driven
Marketing
Ran
Tag
Ford
Lately
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It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?
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Competitiveness
Efficiently
Less Time
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The most important thing is to simultaneously deal with reality - really the way it is, not the way you wished it could be or you hoped it could be - but also have a vision about where you want to go.
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Important
Reality
Vision
Also
Could
Deal
Hoped
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Simultaneously
The Most Important
Wished
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What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan.
Alan Mulally / Engineer
Compelling
Comprehensive
Implementation
Relentless
Strategy
Vision
Achieving
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Plan
The Most Important
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The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.
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Technology
Fit
Lifestyle
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The more senior your management position is, the more important it is to connect the organization or the project to the outside world. You know, how does this fit in with what we're doing? What is the real goal, the real mission?
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Management
Organization
Outside World
Position
Senior
World Your Important
Connect
Project
Mission
Outside
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There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
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Chamber
Commerce
Dealer
Fabric
Ford
Priest
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Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.
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Car
People
Years
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When I arrived in Ford, a decision was made to sell many marquee brands. This was because 85 per cent of the sales were from Ford and Lincoln brands. We were clear that for the company's strong future, we needed to focus on the Ford brands.
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Brands
Marquee
Arrived
Cent
Ford
Per
Lincoln
Sales
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An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.
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Leadership
Future
Able
Challenges
Focus
Helping
Important
Leader
May
Mind
Needs
Organization
Reality
Two
Any
Both
Through
Part
Dealing
Whatever
Hold
Important Part
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I'm more convinced than when I accepted this job that we can create a viable Ford Motor Co. that makes cars and trucks that people really do prefer. And we can make them using minimum resources and minimum time and be competitive with our competition.
Alan Mulally / Engineer
Accepted
Minimum
Motor
Time Competition People
Ford
Trucks
Viable
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Positive leadership - conveying the idea that there is always a way forward - is so important, because that is what you are here for - to figure out how to move the organization forward. Critical to doing that is reinforcing the idea that everyone is included.
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Conveying
Included
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The One Ford plan drives the business to get PGA, Profitable Growth for All, meaning that every year we increase the profits and cash flow. So how do we do that? We serve all the markets around the world with a complete family of vehicles and use the One Ford Plan.
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Family
Business
Cash
Flow
Growth
Increase
Profitable
Around
Family Business World
Year
Complete
Drives
Ford
Markets
Meaning
Plan
Serve
Vehicles
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Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
Alan Mulally / Engineer
Feedback
Involved
Ask
World Your Better
Beat
Better Job
Better World Your
Continually
Door
Exceeding
More And More
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Some people believe the U.S. can't compete in the design and manufacture of sophisticated products. I think we absolutely can if we pull together. We have shown that we can do that in commercial airplanes, and we can absolutely prove that we can do that in automobiles.
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Airplane
Sophisticated
Automobiles
Compete
Manufacture
Shown
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At the most fundamental level, it is an honor to serve - at whatever type or size of organization you are privileged to lead, whether it is a for-profit or nonprofit. It is an honor to serve. Starting from that foundation, it is important to have a compelling vision and a comprehensive plan.
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Compelling
Comprehensive
Foundation
Honor
Organization
Privileged
Size
Starting
Type
Vision
Lead
Fundamental
Nonprofit
Plan
Serve
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We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.
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Past
People
Recovery
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I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.'
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First Time
Garage
Headquarters
Drive
Ford
Tried
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The reason I loved working at Boeing was because I loved the idea of air travel as a way of bringing people and cultures together - because when we come together as people and cultures, we realize that we are not that different after all, and when we realize that we are not that different after all, the world becomes a better place.
Alan Mulally / Engineer
Air Travel
Better Place
All The World
Bringing
Cultures
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