Henry Ford

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.

No one ever wins a war.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

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.

No one should buy on reputation alone. They should come and see it and inspect it, feel it and touch it.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

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

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

I never made any public statements, at least I tried never to make any public statements. I know I don’t do it well, I become very nervous, I forget what it is that I mean to say, I can’t really convey my logic and my thought to the journalists, so I decided this is not my thing, I really shouldn’t be doing it.

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

In New York and Los Angeles, you can throw your car keys to the valet and he parks it. Same in Hong Kong and Singapore, the service is off the scale. In London it’s sub-standard to abysmal.

London has got better as it’s become more international – you only have to look at the quality of the restaurants to see how improved it’s become.

Leverage: don’t make deals without it!

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.