Ford Motor Company

Afternoon Session - 2025 Meeting

“convert Ford Motor from being a car manufacturer into an aircraft manufacturer in a matter of days”

Hard to predict if there will be electric vehicle winners

“the Ford Motor Company, I mean, Henry Ford looked like he owned the world with the Model T”

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“they went to the foreign motor company and said you build tanks and some airplanes”

Morning Session - 2023 Meeting

“they went to the Ford Motor Company and said, you build tanks and some airplanes”

Afternoon Session - 2023 Meeting

“the forward motor company i mean henry ford uh looked like he owned the world with the model t and then and he brought down the price dramatically”

Buffett: More banks may fail but U.S. depositors will be OK | April 12, 2023

“like a person that works on the production line or Ford or something like that”

Buffett: More banks may fail but U.S. depositors will be OK | April 12, 2023

“If they tell you if you buy another Ford motor car they'll give you $10,000 not to do that you'll take the $10,000 you'll buy a Chevy instead”

Part 1 - 2021 Meeting

“Henry Ford was starting the Ford Motor Company. He failed a couple of times before, but he was about to change the world”

Part 1 - 2021 Meeting

“you couldn't buy into Ford Motor. And of course, General Motors became the dominant company. Finally went Henry Ford.”

Buffett: We need to help free trade's "roadkill" | March 28, 2019

“It was Ford Motor. Gus Levy was running it. As a favor, gave me 100 shares. And I have to admit it now”

Morning Session - 2016 Meeting

“R.J. went out to be president of Ford Motor Company from this farm near Shelby”

Morning Session - 2010 Meeting

“you'll see IBM, you'll see Ford Motor, you'll see 3M, you'll see. you'll see HCA. I mean, there's all kinds of companies don't want to do it”

Morning Session - 2009 Meeting

“Now, you get into Chrysler or something and that sort, you know, there is, you know, there is no way. I mean, they're losing money all of the time”

Afternoon Session - 2007 Meeting

“pick a company that's in a terribly tough business, and I wouldn't do it. I mean, it's just too tough... they get cooperation from unions... But it will not be solely in the control of the CEO”

Afternoon Session - 2006 Meeting

“electronic highways, between Procter and Gamble and Ford Motor and the eyeballs of several hundred million people.”

Afternoon Session - 2005 Meeting

“the competitive disadvantage of General Motors and Ford, with their huge health care liability costs for their employees and retirees”

Afternoon Session - 2005 Meeting

“General Motors and Ford are in the position of having commitment to...pay sums for retired...that are staggeringly high”

Afternoon Session - 2005 Meeting

“If I were the governor of Michigan or the President of the United States or a director of General Motors or Ford or a family member of Ford, I would want to address the problem right now.”

Poor Charlie's Almanack

“Is GM valued properly vis-a-vis Ford? We don't know.”

Wesco 2001 Annual Meeting — Notes of Charlie Munger's Remarks (Whitney Tilson)

“Because of a tiny bit of asbestos in brake pads, Ford has set aside $1.7 billion to pay claims”

A Perverse Use of Antitrust Law (2000)

“Consider the Ford Motor Co. When it was the dominant U.S. automaker in 1912, a small firm-a predecessor of General Motors-invented a self-starter”

Stanford Law: Worldly Wisdom Revisited — Business: What Lawyers Should Know (1996)

“Is GM valued properly vis-à-vis Ford? We don't know.”

1987 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“when it owns a portion of enterprises such as Ford or General Electric. The less these companies are being valued at”