Henry Ford

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Christmas stands for the human factor which makes life tolerable midst the hurry of commerce and production. All of us need the annealing effect of Christ’s example to relieve the hardening we get in the daily struggle for material success.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

From the start I had my own ideas about how the business should run. I wanted it to benefit everybody who contributed to its success-stockholders, labor and the American public.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

A low wage business is always insecure.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.

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

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!

First and foremost, I’m a real estate person. And that’s what I love the most.

People in the beauty community don’t like copycats, so I think it’s important to stay true to who you are and people will stay your customer.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

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

In New York and Los Angeles, you can throw your car keys to the valet and he parks it. Same in Hong Kong and Singapore, the service is off the scale. In London it’s sub-standard to abysmal.

London has got better as it’s become more international – you only have to look at the quality of the restaurants to see how improved it’s become.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

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

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