A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.