Henry Ford

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn’t a friendship when – as, for example, it’s me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn’t matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.

Exchange ideas frequently.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

Should I give up my career at this point in my life… and put all my marbles in Laura’s [Nyro] basket?

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Your business, and your brand, must first let people know what you care about, and that you care about them.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

There should be rivalry between men and between business.