Henry Ford

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

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.

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.

From the start I had my own ideas about how the business should run. I wanted it to benefit everybody who contributed to its success-stockholders, labor and the American public.

When prices go up, business goes down.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man’s back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

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.

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

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

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

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

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can’t read it afterwards.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

Chris and I came from nothing. We’re selfmade. We started with nothing, so we have nothing to lose. And we have everything to gain.

You can’t tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don’t mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don’t leave anything over.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

A brand is two words: the ‘Promise’ you telegraph, and the ‘Experience’ you deliver.

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

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

I don’t know the exact details of his background but from what I have read Mr. Abramovich had a very humble start in life and has made his own luck.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.