Henry Ford

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.

Music and song are, in my opinion, so fine and necessary a part of life that without them we cannot be said really to live at all.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

If your dreams don’t scare you they are too small.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

If I had asked them what they had wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

I decided to sit quietly and do business and don’t stick your neck out and tell everybody everything belongs to me. That would only cause problems for myself. Therefore I never told these stories or declared all these things to anyone.

I get my design inspiration from Christian Dior and Chanel.

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

A brand is two words: the ‘Promise’ you telegraph, and the ‘Experience’ you deliver.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.