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"Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street."
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"We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating."
"A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain."
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"The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast."
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"All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace."
"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand."
"We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly."
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