A Good Company Delivers Excellent Products And

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 Felt There Was A Danger Of That, Should We Be Marginalized As A Major Polluter.

For All The Progress, We Recognize We're Very Far From The Finish Line.

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.

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.

I Believe Very Strongly That Corporations Could And Should Be A Major Force For Resolving Social And Environmental Concerns In The Twenty-first Century.