Quotes of Ford - somelinesforyou

“ I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders. ”

- Dan Aykroyd

“ It took at least 200 people, in 5 states, 4 months to turn out a Ford Thunderbird commercial that lasted 90 seconds. ”

- Joan Walker

“ I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. ”

- Gerald R. Ford

“ History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil. ”

- Robert J. Dole

“ We hear a great deal about the Lord loving cheerful givers; we wonder where he fords them. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ True giving fords its basis in honest humility and respect. It meets real needs without regard to our own. ”

- Unknown

“ Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence. ”

- David Steinberg

“ Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis… ”

- J.B.S. Haldane

“ Let it be remembered that practically the sole difference between Henry Ford and a majority of the more than one hundred thousand people who work for him, is this — Ford has a mind and controls it, the others have minds which they do not try to control… You either control your mind or it controls you… ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ You can't buy cool with a bunch of Seattle-centric, flannel-shirted mini-Bills driving new Ford Expeditions, wallowing in their overheated stock options and soaring sense of self-worth. World-class creativity requires more than rational thinking. It takes a certain madness. ”

- Jeffrey Young

“ I don't know that I had any particular influence, but when I came into the business my idols were people like John Ford and Willy Wyler and Howard Hawkes, later on Joseph Mankiewicz and others like that. But I don't know that I picked up, necessarily, anything… ”

- Robert Wise

“ Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it… If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work. ”

- Michael Lewis
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