Henry Ford

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

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

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

As betting at the race ring adds neither strength nor speed to the horse, so the exchange of shares in the stock market adds no capital to business, no increase in the production and no purchasing power to the market.

A store’s best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn’t a friendship when – as, for example, it’s me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn’t matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.

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.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

Leverage: don’t make deals without it!

My dream was to have a steady job, was not to be on the road, to exist like a guy that goes to work as a mechanic or a carpenter and knows he’s gonna have a job.

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

Listen – it makes you sound smarter.

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.

The epiphany for me at William Morris was realizing, ‘They bullshit on the phone! I can bullshit on the phone too!’