Alan Mulally

Businessman

97 Quotes

When work is what you love to do, it's not work - it's serving.

The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.

Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.

I know how inter-dependent the world is.

More and more people realize the importance of economic growth, near-term and long-term in the U.S., and the competitiveness with other countries around the world.

If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.

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

The more senior your management position is, the more important it is to connect the organization or the project to the outside world. You know, how does this fit in with what we're doing? What is the real goal, the real mission?

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?

We've always loved the automobile, and we all love Henry Ford's original vision to open the highways to all mankind, the freedom and movement.

I drive a different car every night.

Boeing is a United States icon.

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

The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.

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

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

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

I've been through geopolitical and economic cycles.

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.

I taught my executive team how to argue.

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