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

You can't improve if you don't know what the real situation is.

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

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

I really do believe that working together works, and it's amazing to me.

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.

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

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.

Be true to yourself and your values.

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

Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.

Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.

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

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 felt very comfortable moving from aerospace to automobiles.

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.

The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that?

Transparency is so important in business.

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

You can't manage a secret.

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

Automobiles are fun and exciting. We need them. They are a part of our lives.

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.

Boeing is a United States icon.