Alan Mulally
You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Leadership
Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.Collection: Humor
Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.Collection: Leadership
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?Collection: Car
Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.Collection: Independence
Data can set you free.
If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.
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.
You can't manage a secret.
If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.
What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan.
Transparency is so important in business.
The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that?
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.
You can't improve if you don't know what the real situation is.
I taught my executive team how to argue.
Be true to yourself and your values.
If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.
No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.
The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.
There is a great market for cars in the United States - as Honda and Toyota have proven.
The more senior your management position is, the more important it is to connect the organization or the project to the outside world. You know, how does this fit in with what we're doing? What is the real goal, the real mission?
I've been very fortunate to be part of projects that are really big and broad.
Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.
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.
Ford is committed to building a sustainable future for the benefit of all Americans, and we believe Ford is on the right path to achieve this vision.
Boeing is a United States icon.
Some people believe the U.S. can't compete in the design and manufacture of sophisticated products. I think we absolutely can if we pull together. We have shown that we can do that in commercial airplanes, and we can absolutely prove that we can do that in automobiles.
Automobiles are fun and exciting. We need them. They are a part of our lives.
I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.
I think my first-ever car was a Chevrolet, 1960.
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.
I felt very comfortable moving from aerospace to automobiles.
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.
The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.
Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.
I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.
Because of the Internet of Things, we're all going to be connected.
As we develop our energy policies in the United States to generate our energy clean, then I think we're going to really move to a world that all of us want, and that is a sustainable future.
I really do believe that working together works, and it's amazing to me.
This working together is just so important: you're either working together, or you're not working together.
A lot of people don't want to get bad news.
Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.
When work is what you love to do, it's not work - it's serving.
I drive a different car every night.
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.'
It's all about producing products people want.
I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.
There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.