Ford Owner Quotes & Sayings

Ironically, we practically have to be sainted to get through the adoption process, but any fool can spawn and have a baby, tra la la. — Jen Hatmaker

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister. — Brian Mulroney

A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable - in thirty years' time? In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and shade that the owner never would. — Ford Madox Ford

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. — William Shakespeare

The lesson of the Ford story is that managers and management are the specific need of the business enterprise, its specific organ, and its basic structure. We can say dogmatically that enterprise cannot do without managers. One cannot argue that management does the owner's job by delegation. Management is needed not only because the job is too big for any one man to do himself, but because managing an enterprise is something essentially different from managing one's own property. — Peter F. Drucker

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream. — Douglas Coupland

I didn't get into racing to make friends. — Jimmie Johnson

To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas. — Harshit Walia

The stinks of the true believers have to be smelt to be believed. — C.S. Forester

I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality. — Tanc Sade

I confess, I do not believe in time. — Vladimir Nabokov

If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own economic future, because China, Germany - they're making these [clean energy] investments. And I'm not going to cede those jobs of the future to those countries. I expect those new energy sources to be built right here in the United States. — Barack Obama

At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family. — George Burns

I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work. — Biz Stone