Henry Ford

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

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.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.

The more predictable the business, the more valuable it is.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That’s my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I’m going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.

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

No one should buy on reputation alone. They should come and see it and inspect it, feel it and touch it.

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

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.

We’ve created a recognisable brand that has the ability to be the Louis Vuitton of our era.

As far as competition is concerned, that must continue. But we must learn what competition really is. It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

My definition of an executive’s job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

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.