Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

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.

If you find out what men want and give them that, you are pleasing them. If you find out what is good for them and give them that, you are performing a service. That’s what we are trying to do.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn’t a friendship when – as, for example, it’s me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn’t matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

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.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‘Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.’

We were all young and we were all inventing our careers. I was very close to Jackson, just as I’d been very close to Laura Nyro. With each person I had a unique relationship.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

I get my design inspiration from Christian Dior and Chanel.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

I built a great company, one of the – some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.

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

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

I’ve been making deals all my life.