Henry Ford

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.

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

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

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

A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

Fairs and public displays are the best means we have yet found of showing large numbers of people the real methods of industry.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man’s back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

I must have had a dozen jobs and I got fired from all of them.

Building a brand may be more important than building a business.

Hire character. Train skill.

My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.

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

If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.

Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That’s my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I’m going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.

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.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.