Words matter. These are the best William Clay Ford, Jr. Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
I don’t know if a company can have a soul, but I like to think it can.
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!’
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.
At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.
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.
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.
I have no patience for wasting time.
Whenever I’m at a party, people are always telling me either to get a new quarterback or make the Taurus back seat bigger.
I don’t ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.
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.
What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football?
I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
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.
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.
Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology.
One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.
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 believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
I bleed Ford blue.
There are almost no limits in terms of what a car can become.
I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values.
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.
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.
