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What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
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If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.
Alan Mulally
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The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.
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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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It's just really important that we have boundaries and guidelines to operate. Our homes, the cars, everything is going to be on the Internet. And so what are the guidelines? What do we want?
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Ford had a number of different strategies over the years that they thought obviously made sense at the time, just like all the different brands, and also the regional operations.
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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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The most important thing is to simultaneously deal with reality - really the way it is, not the way you wished it could be or you hoped it could be - but also have a vision about where you want to go.
Alan Mulally
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It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?
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Both Boeing and Ford are absolutely committed to safe and efficient transportation.
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I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.'
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Positive leadership - conveying the idea that there is always a way forward - is so important, because that is what you are here for - to figure out how to move the organization forward. Critical to doing that is reinforcing the idea that everyone is included.
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There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.
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The Chinese love Ford's product line: they love the quality, the fuel-efficiency, the safety, the brand.
Alan Mulally
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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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Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.
Alan Mulally -
I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.
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The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.
Alan Mulally -
I found a new love in Google. I'm a Googler now.
Alan Mulally -
I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.
Alan Mulally
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There is a great market for cars in the United States - as Honda and Toyota have proven.
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If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.
Alan Mulally -
I was the lead designer and the general manager of the triple 7 and, of course, the dynamite 787.
Alan Mulally -
I drive a different car every night.
Alan Mulally