Henry Ford

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

As far as competition is concerned, that must continue. But we must learn what competition really is. It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

President Hoover has done everything any one could do to bring about improvement in business and industry. Everything President Hoover has advised or tried to put into effect has been sound.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations.

I will build a motor car for the great multitude – constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. So low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.

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

In New York and Los Angeles, you can throw your car keys to the valet and he parks it. Same in Hong Kong and Singapore, the service is off the scale. In London it’s sub-standard to abysmal.

London has got better as it’s become more international – you only have to look at the quality of the restaurants to see how improved it’s become.

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

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

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.

It’s a new endeavour for me. I’ve never run a territory. I’ve never talked publicly to people. I’ve got to try it just to see whether I like it.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

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

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.

I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

I’m not looking to be a personal manager.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

As far as competition is concerned, that must continue. But we must learn what competition really is. It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.