Alan Mulally Quotes

I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. I, more than anyone, wish for our customers' cars to be safe.

We’ve got to get the bad operators out of business so that the good operators can be rewarded for investing in safety.

Safety is number one at Uber... so we make sure the system is in place so riders get the safest ride possible.

Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety.

When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.

I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence.

Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve.

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.

When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which it's created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.

No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.

No one would say, 'Hey, I think this medicine works, go ahead and use it.' We have testing, we go to the lab, we try it again, we have refinement. But you know what we do on the last mile? 'Oh, this is a good idea. People will like this. Let's put it out there.'

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.

I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

Report makes dangers greater then they be.

You can't fire anybody in Government; everyone blames the system. Look what is happening in NASA. Now we have to truck out these 200-plus audits out of the closet because we had a disaster [the Challenger], and we still can't find someone to fire.

I used to have a lot more hair before I got involved with this milk business …. We don't have a lot of public support for our milk policies and that probably indicates we're doing it right.