I felt very comfortable moving from aerospace to automobiles.
The reason I loved working at Boeing was because I loved the idea of air travel as a way of bringing people and cultures together - because when we come together as people and cultures, we realize that we are not that different after all, and when we realize that we are not that different after all, the world becomes a better place.
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.
Consumers want safe and really efficient automobiles.
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.
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.
You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.
There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
Having one national standard for mpg and CO2 is extremely important.
It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.
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.
The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.
I was the lead designer and the general manager of the triple 7 and, of course, the dynamite 787.
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?
The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that?
Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.
A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.
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.
I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.
