Henry Ford

Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.

Edison, to a greater extent than has ever been recognized, is the father of American industrial methods.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

Public officials are all right if they stay in their proper sphere and perform their proper functions but when they get greedy for wider scope and more power and money they lose their value and become parasites.

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.

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.

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Profits are not financial-they’re social. Everybody profits from industry. Politicians don’t understand profits because they can pay bills out of taxation.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

The union organizers are asking us to sit still while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

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

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.

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.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.

If you go through some big corporate change, it’s just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don’t sell because there’s inevitably going to be some change.