A Good Company Delivers Excellent

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.

When You Factor In Population Growth, It's Clear That The Mobility Model That We Have Today Simply Will Not Work Tomorrow. Four Billion Clean Cars On The Road Are Still Four Billion Cars, And A Traffic Jam With No Emissions Is Still A Traffic Jam.

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

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 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.