Henry Ford

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

When prices go up, business goes down.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

Nobody buys a farm based on whether they think it’s going to rain next year. They buy it because they think it’s a good investment over 10 or 20 years.

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

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

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.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

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.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

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

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

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