Henry Ford

The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

The difference between a good govt. system and its poor administration is easily explained; the chief administrators are not Bosses in the best sense.

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

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

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.

A brand is two words: the ‘Promise’ you telegraph, and the ‘Experience’ you deliver.

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

We’’ve designed swimming pools that turn into ballrooms, and fitted security devices that fill a garage with gas if someone is stealing your car.

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

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

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

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

I never made any public statements, at least I tried never to make any public statements. I know I don’t do it well, I become very nervous, I forget what it is that I mean to say, I can’t really convey my logic and my thought to the journalists, so I decided this is not my thing, I really shouldn’t be doing it.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

There is a time and place for all things to be successful. There is fate and destiny and opportunity, and you need all three things in line at the same time.