Henry Ford

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

Profits made out of the distress of the people are always much smaller than profits made out of the most lavish service of the people at the lowest prices that competent management can make possible.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

I have a theory that the best advertisements come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

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

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

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

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don’t make money from as a cost.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.