Henry Ford

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

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

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

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.

I never made any public statements, at least I tried never to make any public statements. I know I don’t do it well, I become very nervous, I forget what it is that I mean to say, I can’t really convey my logic and my thought to the journalists, so I decided this is not my thing, I really shouldn’t be doing it.

I have had the top people in the world into One Hyde Park, and they have seen everything and they say there is nothing quite like this.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

It’s all too easy to miss out on the important moments in life because you’re too busy staring at your phone.

What America needs most is aviation.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard-working and pragmatic.

In business, cooperation is essential to success.

Do not spend too much time planning or trying to anticipate and solve problems before they happen. That is just another kind of excuse for procrastination. Until you start, you won’t know where the problems will occur. You won’t have the experience to solve them. Instead, get into action, and solve the problems as they arise.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don’t live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

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