Henry Ford

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

As betting at the race ring adds neither strength nor speed to the horse, so the exchange of shares in the stock market adds no capital to business, no increase in the production and no purchasing power to the market.

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

Chris and I came from nothing. We’re selfmade. We started with nothing, so we have nothing to lose. And we have everything to gain.

Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your own family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out — either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

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

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I have had the top people in the world into One Hyde Park, and they have seen everything and they say there is nothing quite like this.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

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

We started learning ourselves, understanding ourselves, reading, researching, going around the world and looking at what was defined as the very best.

As far as competition is concerned, that must continue. But we must learn what competition really is. It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

My dream was to have a steady job, was not to be on the road, to exist like a guy that goes to work as a mechanic or a carpenter and knows he’s gonna have a job.

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.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.