Henry Ford

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.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

We do not hire a man’s history, we hire the man.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

Exchange ideas frequently.

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

[In 1990 on the president of MCA calling and saying ‘We’re going to make you the biggest offer this company has ever made, and I’m going to send it to you by messenger right now.’] It’s 1990. Send me a fax.

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I’m very proud of the job I did.

When you are in real estate, you are going to make some mistakes.

I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

Anything that is not right, whether it temporarily favors the employees or the employers, cannot last-because it is not right.

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

There is a time and place for all things to be successful. There is fate and destiny and opportunity, and you need all three things in line at the same time.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

We’ve created a recognisable brand that has the ability to be the Louis Vuitton of our era.