A biography for Alan Mulallyhasn’t been written yet.
“No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.”
“The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.”
“I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.”
“When people feel accountable and included, it is more fun.”
“If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.”
“I'm more convinced than when I accepted this job that we can create a viable Ford Motor Co. that makes cars and trucks that people really do prefer. And we can make them using minimum resources and minimum time and be competitive with our competition.”
“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.”
“I think my first-ever car was a Chevrolet, 1960.”
“Both Boeing and Ford are absolutely committed to safe and efficient transportation.”
“Having one national standard for mpg and CO2 is extremely important.”
“Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.”
“If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.”
“The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.”
“I've been through geopolitical and economic cycles.”
“I have a lot of respect for Microsoft.”
“It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.”