Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they’ll work out their own salvation.

Leverage: don’t make deals without it!

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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.

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don’t let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else’s advertising.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

The union organizers are asking us to sit still while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.