Henry Ford

No American ought to be compelled to strike for his rights. He ought to receive them naturally, easily, as a matter of course.

Getting permanent value out of a job means purpose and fitting means to ends.

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

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.

[on Steve jobs] Our relationship was based almost always on him calling up and asking, ‘Is this a good deal?’ I’m not in his business, and I wasn’t trying to be. I was just a guy who admired him a lot and was flattered he wanted my advice.

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

I used to be able to read memo’s upside down… It was like going to the college of the entertainment business.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

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

No human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient [for] the duty of superintending the industry of private people … towards the employment most suitable to the interest of the society.

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

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.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

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

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.

This is serious business. But it doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun along the way.

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.