Henry Ford

A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

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

When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.

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.

I built a great company, one of the – some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it’s not that way at all, it’s something else.

Nobody buys a farm based on whether they think it’s going to rain next year. They buy it because they think it’s a good investment over 10 or 20 years.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

I get my design inspiration from Christian Dior and Chanel.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

One client didn’t want to go out so had us build him a nightclub in his house.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.

Listen – it makes you sound smarter.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.