I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.
I think my first-ever car was a Chevrolet, 1960.
Transparency is so important in business.
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.
Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.
Be true to yourself and your values.
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.
A lot of people don't want to get bad news.
You can't improve if you don't know what the real situation is.
Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.
When work is what you love to do, it's not work - it's serving.
I drive a different car every night.
It's all about producing products people want.
The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.
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.
We don't worry over macro-economic factors when investing, as we are always thinking about the long-term.
If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.
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?'
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.
Consumers want safe and really efficient automobiles.
