Mark Fields
Mark Fields
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Joe not only stopped a continuing market share decline in one of our key North American markets, he reversed course and increased sales in the very competitive Canadian environment.
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I think to one degree or another we have been arrogant in the past.
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Our path is not going to linear and smooth.
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Our path is not going to be linear or smooth. It's still early days.
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I just hope that rationality returns to the marketplace because employee pricing sucked the life out of the auto industry for basically the rest of the year.
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I'm wary of answering questions about my new job. My approach is to listen, learn, come to conclusions and implement with my team.
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Achieving the goals detailed in the plan is absolutely critical to our future and will require tough decisions, including addressing the rising costs of health care, which we've heard so much about.
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If you look at the CUV right now, it's populated by a lot of vehicles, that, quite honest, are somewhat nondescript.
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How big the segment will be, that's going to depend on what happens with fuel prices and customer preferences.
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I asked Bill Ford and Jim Padilla for not only the best and the brightest leaders in our company, but for the kind of people who can work as one team on one agenda. That agenda is to turn around our North American operation with a team that knows how to win, an innovative product line-up that wins in the marketplace and a brand that has strong emotional appeal. We now have in place an outstanding group of leaders in The Americas, and they already have hit the ground running to turn the business around.
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I am pleasantly surprised at the wealth of artistic talent that has had a connection to South Jersey, either historic or present day. But I am even more surprised that we continue to learn of more such artists and entertainers every year. Any region of any state would be proud to be associated with artists of such stature.
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I'm not going to put a date on when Jaguar will return to profitability, ... But clearly, the plan is to make Jag a profitable business.
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The hard but simple reality is that Ford has the costs, capacity and staffing of a company that is much larger than our sales and market share can support -- even under the best of conditions.