William Clay Ford, Jr. Quotes

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

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• Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Women
  • Become

• My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Interest
  • I Can
  • Product

• As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • You
  • See
  • Opportunities

• I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sick

• My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Want
  • Sin
  • Paint

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Business
  • Silence
  • Bird

• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Music
  • Die
  • Proud

• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Design

• Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Moving
  • New York

• So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Think
  • Courage
  • Years

• My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Real
  • Know

• After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Home
  • Me
  • Run

• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Control

• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Up
  • She
  • Reading

• Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • She
  • Happy

• Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

  

  Socrates
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

  

  Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • People
  • World
  • Company

• I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • Work
  • Home
  • She

• Cast aside your doubts. Make a total commitment to living the life you were meant to live.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Live
  • Doubt

• We took our eye off the ball as a company.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Company
  • Ball