6. Obama had concluded: Rattner, Overhaul, p. 46.
19. TURNING THE CORNER
1. “Unless you have courage”: From Theosophist magazine, February 1930.
2. “Ford made sure”: Steven Rattner, Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), p. 205.
3. most sought-after American car: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, August 26, 2009.
4. son of a farmer: This information is taken from a profile prepared by the China Daily on March 27, 2006. It has been confirmed by Reuters and other sources.
5. Geely KingKong: Doug Young, “Geely’s Folksy Li Known as China’s Henry Ford,” Reuters, July 22, 2010.
6. a team of advisers: Kevin Krolicki, Niklas Pollard, and Fang Yan, “Saving Volvo,” Reuters, July 22, 2010.
7. first full-year gain: Ford press release, January 5, 2010.
20. PROOF POINTS
1. “Wealth is nothing”: From Theosophist magazine, February 1930.
2. August 28, 2009: “Timeline—Toyota’s Rise and Run-up to Its Recall Crisis,” Reuters, February 9, 2010.
3. “It will make us globally competitive”: Quoted in a story by the author that appeared in the Detroit News on January 11, 2010.
4. “Now we are here”: Bruce Einhorn, “Alan Mulally’s Asian Sales Call,” Bloomberg Businessweek, April 1, 2010.
5. more cash than debt: Ford press release, April 1, 2011.
6. now topped the list: According to quarterly surveys by the Swiss investment bank UBS.
21. THE ROAD AHEAD
1. “The only history”: Quoted in the Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1916.
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