Quotes by William Clay Ford, Jr. - Page 1

I bleed Ford blue.
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Blue
Bleed
Ford
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I have no patience for wasting time.
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Wasting Time
Wasting
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I was an absolutely untalented designer.
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Designer
Absolutely
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We took our eye off the ball as a company.
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Eye
Ball
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The Ford family wants the company to succeed. Period.
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Succeed
Ford
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Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life.
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Life My Life Everything
Everything Else
Ford
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You can take weight out of a car and truck and still make it very strong.
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Truck
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The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.
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Denial
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What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football?
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Cooler
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I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
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Combustion
Fuel
Fuel Cells
Reign
Engine
Believe End I Believe
Internal
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I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values.
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Industrial
Square
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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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Loyal
Scrutiny
Buyer
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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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Base
Healthy Economy
Industrial
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Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of the economy.
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Creation
Job Creation
Manufacturing
Sector
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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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Common Language
Motor
Thread
All People
Ford
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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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Bottled Water
Cheaper
Gas
Position
Bottled
Consumer
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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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Gas
Natural Gas
Storage
Tanks
Passenger
Require
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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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Enabling
Mobility
Satisfied
Users
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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.
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Quarterback
Taurus
Me People New
Seat
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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.
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Notion
Ownership
Antiquated
Car City Day
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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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Distraction
Don't Care
Heresy
Worst
Bolshevik
Best Care People
Major
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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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Related
Technology Internet Will
Individuals
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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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Mobility
Providing
Bearing
Ford
Henry
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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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Environmental
Corporations
Concerns
Resolving
Strongly
Twenty-First
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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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Available
Don't Care
Iphone
Technology World People
Technology Where World
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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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Happiness
Driving
Fame
Motivated
Self-satisfaction
Power Money Me
End
Bring
In The End
The Only Thing
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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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Cities
Emerging
Tokyo
Traffic
Associated
Established
Spreading
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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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Credible
Management
Recovery
Window
Inherited
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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.
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Demand
Mobility
Please
Great World People
Come And Go
Schedule
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Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.
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Company
Cult
Diminish
Including
Industry
Irreplaceable
Long
Nobody
Too
Frankly
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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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All Things
Equal
Germany
Hometown
Prefer
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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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Filled
Hype
Good World Bad
Accomplishments
Bull
Frankly
In The End
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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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Motor
Oval
Stand For Something
Continuously
Ford
Polishing
Trucks
We Cannot
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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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Grandfather
Socialist
Welcome
Workers
Time Great Street
Insisted
Profits
Robber
Sharing
Wall Street
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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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Excellence
Legacy
Benefit
Booth
Ford
Lewis
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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.
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Natural Resources
Resources
Ford
Joined
Strongly
User
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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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Commonplace
Efficient
World Will More
Safer
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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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Danger
Marginalized
Tobacco
Employees
Ford
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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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Adviser
Great Grandfather
Native
Questionable
Range
Amplified
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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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Desperately
Diversify
Frankly
Peak
Ton
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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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Aging
Autonomous
Elderly
Population
Challenged
Developed
Enable
Vital
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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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Grandchildren
Motor
Opposite
Apologise
Employees
Ford
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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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Advantage
Growing Up
Infallibility
Management
Seeing
Life Believe Me
Ceos
Close
Companies
Scares
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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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Environmental
Activism
Prosperity
Rising
Wave
Headed
Ride
Swell
Tide
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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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Active
Avoidance
Crash
Passive
Safety
Wheels
Accident
Car Your Look
Bad Situation
Driver
Survive
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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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Grappling
Greenpeace
Conference
Executive
Ford
Send
Signal
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My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all.
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Dedicated
Family Man
Grandfather
Great Grandfather
Inspire
Life Family Business
Missed
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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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Action
Brain
Brain Power
Effort
Energy
Granted
Green
Individual
Mobility
Policy
Today
Wonderful
Time Power Money
Global
Towards
How Much
How Much Time
Pour
Terms
Take For Granted
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