American - Businessman | May 3, 1957 -
I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.
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I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.
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S.U.V.'s are under a lot of scrutiny these days, and yet the S.U.V. buyer is a very loyal lot.
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At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.
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There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.
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The day will come when the notion of car ownership becomes antiquated. If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car.
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Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life.
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I was an absolutely untalented designer.
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The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose... We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval.
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There are almost no limits in terms of what a car can become.
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It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars.
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