Henry Ford

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

Mass production is craftsmanship with the drudgery taken out of it.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

I will build a motor car for the great multitude – constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. So low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.

The basis of peace should be a world federation.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I quickly figured out [that] the one ability I’d better have is to create relationships.

A store’s best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

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

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

We’’ve designed swimming pools that turn into ballrooms, and fitted security devices that fill a garage with gas if someone is stealing your car.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man’s back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn’t.