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

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

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 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.

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.

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.