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.

A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.

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.

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.

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 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.

Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .