Henry Ford

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.

What America needs most is aviation.

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.

If the boss stands in the way of men getting what they earn, he is not fit to be boss.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don’t live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

We’ve created a recognisable brand that has the ability to be the Louis Vuitton of our era.

Listen – it makes you sound smarter.

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

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.

If you find out what men want and give them that, you are pleasing them. If you find out what is good for them and give them that, you are performing a service. That’s what we are trying to do.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

Did I have a problem with lying to get the job? None whatsoever.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

[On being partners with Laura Nyro in Tuna Fish Music (Laura’s favorite food was Tuna Fish)] We became partners in this new publishing company.

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

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.