Henry Ford

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

About half of what are called US exports to Mexico are intrafirm transfers of this sort. They don’t enter the Mexican market, and there’s no meaningful sense in which they’re exports to Mexico. Still, that’s called ‘trade.’

Leave the President’s family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

If one looks at the map of the world, it’s difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.

Well, I do think there’s blame — yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. You look at — you look at both sides. I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either.

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

The ‘corporatization of America’ during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century… This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

Stability of tax policy must be absolutely guaranteed for the next six years.

…the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

An IMF study that investigated the profits of American banks…found that they were almost entirely dependent on implicit public subsidies. There’s a kind of a guarantee – it’s not on paper, but it’s an implicit guarantee – that if they get into trouble they will be bailed out.

[on Trump] It is not our business to asses his worthiness, but he is the absolute leader of the presidential race.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

We will use funds returned from Brussels after Brexit to invest in our public services and jobs of the future, not tax cuts for the richest.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.