Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.
Edison, to a greater extent than has ever been recognized, is the father of American industrial methods.
Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.
The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or philosophy.
Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.
Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.
Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.
Public officials are all right if they stay in their proper sphere and perform their proper functions but when they get greedy for wider scope and more power and money they lose their value and become parasites.
The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.
Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.
I wouldn’t give five cents for all the art in the world.
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.
If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
But to do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.
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.
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