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

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I’d rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

It’s amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that’s usable?

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

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

I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.

I don’t ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

For all the progress, we recognize we’re very far from the finish line.

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 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.

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.

When you factor in population growth, it’s clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic – if we can call it that – between high and low. Maybe it’s because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.