Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Alan Mulally - Page 2

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.

We want people to still have choices - Ford cars and trucks, whatever works for their lifestyle.

It's all about producing products people want.

If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.

Consumers want safe and really efficient automobiles.

I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.

Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.

This working together is just so important: you're either working together, or you're not working together.

If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.

Boeing is a United States icon.

A lot of people don't want to get bad news.

If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.

Because of the Internet of Things, we're all going to be connected.

I found a new love in Google. I'm a Googler now.

Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.

I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

The similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It's all about safe and efficient transportation using the latest technology and the best fuel efficiency.

Having one national standard for mpg and CO2 is extremely important.

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.

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.'

I know how inter-dependent the world is.

Everybody cares about not only quality and functionality, but they also want the power of choice, whether it's a small vehicle or a large vehicle.

I think my first-ever car was a Chevrolet, 1960.

It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.

At the most fundamental level, it is an honor to serve - at whatever type or size of organization you are privileged to lead, whether it is a for-profit or nonprofit. It is an honor to serve. Starting from that foundation, it is important to have a compelling vision and a comprehensive plan.

Both Boeing and Ford are absolutely committed to safe and efficient transportation.

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.

The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.

With Sync technology, we're seamlessly connected to the Internet, hands-free, and able to focus on the road but also able to handle guidance and navigation and play your music.

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.

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.

I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.

My career has been spent developing airplanes.

I taught my executive team how to argue.

We don't worry over macro-economic factors when investing, as we are always thinking about the long-term.

I believe America should make things.

Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.