“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.”

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.

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

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.

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.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

Some things you just can’t question. Like you can’t question why two plus two is four. So don’t question it, don’t try to look it up.

Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?

I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious.

I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .