“I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace busine...” — William Clay Ford Quote

“I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.”

“The Ford family wants the company to succeed. Period.”

“Whenever I'm at a party, people are always telling me either to get a new quarterback or make the Taurus back seat bigger.”

“In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.”

“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.”

“The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.”