Henry Ford

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Children have helped me a lot.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That’s my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I’m going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.

Our clients pay for value. London is the top city in the world, the best tax haven in the world for some and the top residential site in the city is One Hyde Park at the top end of Sloane Street.

My definition of an executive’s job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

I decided to sit quietly and do business and don’t stick your neck out and tell everybody everything belongs to me. That would only cause problems for myself. Therefore I never told these stories or declared all these things to anyone.

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

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

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

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.