Alan Mulally Quotes
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Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
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The One Ford plan drives the business to get PGA, Profitable Growth for All, meaning that every year we increase the profits and cash flow. So how do we do that? We serve all the markets around the world with a complete family of vehicles and use the One Ford Plan.
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I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.
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I grew up with Microsoft. I know the leadership of Microsoft.
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Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.
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An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.
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I had a great life at Boeing. I'd been there for 37 years and contributed to all the Boeing airplanes as a designer: the 707, 727, 37, 47, 57, 67 and 'triple 7' and the 87.
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Data can set you free.
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A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.
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When people feel accountable and included, it is more fun.
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I taught my executive team how to argue.
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Transparency is so important in business.
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I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.
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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.
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Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.
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At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.
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What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
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Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.
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You create value, and you create jobs.
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It is just more rewarding to do things in a supportive environment.
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We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.
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Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.
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If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.
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The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.