Henry Ford

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

You can’t tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don’t mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don’t leave anything over.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

[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.

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry and started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

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

On Beverly Hills we paid too much. One hundred per cent, we did over-pay. We didn’t do our research properly.

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

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

I own buildings. I’m a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.