Henry Ford

People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.

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

I wouldn’t have the Presidency or any political office-don’t want anything to do with it nor have politics have anything to do with me.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

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

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

Exchange ideas frequently.

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

Profits made out of the distress of the people are always much smaller than profits made out of the most lavish service of the people at the lowest prices that competent management can make possible.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

No one loses anything by raising wages as soon as he is able. It has always paid us. Low wages are the most costly any employer can pay. It is like using low-grade material–the waste makes it very expensive in the end. There is no economy in cheap labor or cheap material. The hardest thing I ever had to do was to reduce wages. I think we were the last big company to come to it. Now I am mighty glad that wages are climbing again.

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

I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice, and second would be New York. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I’m used to four different seasons; it’s difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

We know everything about our clients – if they like their dressing gowns heated, what colour flowers they like, if their chef works left-handed – we know everything and we incorporate it into our work for them.

As betting at the race ring adds neither strength nor speed to the horse, so the exchange of shares in the stock market adds no capital to business, no increase in the production and no purchasing power to the market.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

After the situation with Kursk submarine, I started looking at Mr. Berezovsky in a completely different way. For me, it was a turning point in our relationship. I think that he took a completely dishonorable position.

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.