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.

When I arrived in Ford, a decision was made to sell many marquee brands. This was because 85 per cent of the sales were from Ford and Lincoln brands. We were clear that for the company's strong future, we needed to focus on the Ford brands.

Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.

I just try to take a positive approach with my social media, with my Instagram. I just want people who go to my page to kinda feel inspired.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.