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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.
- Exceeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Boeing is a United States icon.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Customer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't manage a secret.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my first-ever car was a Chevrolet, 1960.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Transparency is so important in business.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that?
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be true to yourself and your values.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
This working together is just so important: you're either working together, or you're not working together.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people don't want to get bad news.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drive a different car every night.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all about producing products people want.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't worry over macro-economic factors when investing, as we are always thinking about the long-term.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the lead designer and the general manager of the triple 7 and, of course, the dynamite 787.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese love Ford's product line: they love the quality, the fuel-efficiency, the safety, the brand.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught my executive team how to argue.
- Cycles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been through geopolitical and economic cycles.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how inter-dependent the world is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Data can set you free.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people feel accountable and included, it is more fun.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found a new love in Google. I'm a Googler now.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want people to still have choices - Ford cars and trucks, whatever works for their lifestyle.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
My career has been spent developing airplanes.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Microsoft
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of respect for Microsoft.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe America should make things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, have I become a car guy!
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- Nov 07, 2020
No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.
- Jobs
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- Nov 07, 2020
You create value, and you create jobs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.
- Nov 07, 2020
It was an honor to serve at Boeing on the 777.
- Committed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both Boeing and Ford are absolutely committed to safe and efficient transportation.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020