Henry Ford

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

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

Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

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.

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.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

It’s a new endeavour for me. I’ve never run a territory. I’ve never talked publicly to people. I’ve got to try it just to see whether I like it.

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

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

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I’m very proud of the job I did.

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

[on Steve jobs] Our relationship was based almost always on him calling up and asking, ‘Is this a good deal?’ I’m not in his business, and I wasn’t trying to be. I was just a guy who admired him a lot and was flattered he wanted my advice.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

A world where men ran half our homes and women ran half our institutions would be just a much better world.