Henry Ford

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

The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

History is more or less bunk.

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 man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

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.

The more predictable the business, the more valuable it is.

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

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

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

A store’s best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves. but they can get very excited by those who do. That is why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

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

I think I’ve got the best staff in television.

I really don’t retain information – by the time I arrive wherever I’m going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

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