Henry Ford

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. With a job to supply him with cash, and a plot of land to guarantee him support, the individual is doubly secure. Stocks may fail, but seedtime and harvest do not fail.

We do not hire a man’s history, we hire the man.

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

In teaching the children at Greenfield Village, we are trying to get back some of the solid McGuffey qualities.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

[On his first job in the mailroom of William Morris a casting agency] It was the first time in the my life that I thought ‘I can do that.’

I think I’ve got the best staff in television.

I think everybody thought I was crazy that I quit my job and started a management company in which I was managing one client – Laura Nyro.

I never insisted that I was a good student.

While I love technology and social media, a text or a tweet can never replace the real value of conversation.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

Getting permanent value out of a job means purpose and fitting means to ends.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. With a job to supply him with cash, and a plot of land to guarantee him support, the individual is doubly secure. Stocks may fail, but seedtime and harvest do not fail.

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves. but they can get very excited by those who do. That is why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular.

The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

When prices go up, business goes down.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

On Beverly Hills we paid too much. One hundred per cent, we did over-pay. We didn’t do our research properly.