Henry Ford

What America needs most is aviation.

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

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

Nations are great as they are prosperous as they are industrious as they are just.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

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

Edison, to a greater extent than has ever been recognized, is the father of American industrial methods.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

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

The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals.

I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

I believe that any stock that is sold should have real value as automobile or bushel of potatoes, and stock market should be run as a vegetable market.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

What’s the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Mass production is craftsmanship with the drudgery taken out of it.

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

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.