Henry Ford

The difference between a good govt. system and its poor administration is easily explained; the chief administrators are not Bosses in the best sense.

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

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

In teaching the children at Greenfield Village, we are trying to get back some of the solid McGuffey qualities.

Teach children not to be gullible.

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

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.

We’’ve designed swimming pools that turn into ballrooms, and fitted security devices that fill a garage with gas if someone is stealing your car.

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

You now have to decide what ‘image’ you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

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 quickly figured out [that] the one ability I’d better have is to create relationships.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

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.

I’m not looking to be a personal manager.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

It’s not just about being better. It’s about being different. You need to give people a reason to choose your business.

I have a theory that the best advertisements come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.