Henry Ford

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

Teach children not to be gullible.

The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

If you find out what men want and give them that, you are pleasing them. If you find out what is good for them and give them that, you are performing a service. That’s what we are trying to do.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No.1.

There is a time and place for all things to be successful. There is fate and destiny and opportunity, and you need all three things in line at the same time.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

No human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient [for] the duty of superintending the industry of private people … towards the employment most suitable to the interest of the society.

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

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

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

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

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.

[On being partners with Laura Nyro in Tuna Fish Music (Laura’s favorite food was Tuna Fish)] We became partners in this new publishing company.

Mr. Edison was comfortably well off-he was not a money maker.

My dream was to have a steady job, was not to be on the road, to exist like a guy that goes to work as a mechanic or a carpenter and knows he’s gonna have a job.

My advice to budding property developers: do it on the cheap and you’ll get a cheap price. Don’t avoid putting in skirting just because it’s hidden by a sofa.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.