Bill Ford Quotes

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.

I Don't Ever Want To Believe My Own Press Clippings, Good Or Bad.

One Cannot Find A Healthy Economy Anywhere In The World That Does Not Have A Strong Industrial Base, Period.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Believe Fuel Cells Will Finally End The 100-year Reign Of The Internal Combustion Engine. . . Fuel Cells Could Be The Predominant Automotive Power Source In 25 Years.

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.

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.

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.

As Long As Gas Is Cheaper Than Bottled Water, We Can't Be In A Position Of Dictating To The Consumer What To Buy.