Henry Ford

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

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

It’s a new endeavour for me. I’ve never run a territory. I’ve never talked publicly to people. I’ve got to try it just to see whether I like it.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

The epiphany for me at William Morris was realizing, ‘They bullshit on the phone! I can bullshit on the phone too!’

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

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

There’s no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don’t live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don’t be an automaton.

It took only 10 minutes to do Chelsea deal with Roman Abramovich but I had to Google him first … I wasn’t sure if Jeremy Beadle was going to jump out.

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

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

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry and started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.