Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

But to do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.

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

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn’t.

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

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

Nobody buys a farm based on whether they think it’s going to rain next year. They buy it because they think it’s a good investment over 10 or 20 years.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

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.

[‘Why don’t you manage me’ – Laura Nyro] Eventually I thought do I really believe that she could be one of the biggest stars in the world? Should I give up my career at this point in my life, where I’m doing so well, and put all my marbles in Laura’s [Nyro] basket? And I woke up one morning and I thought if you really believe it – go for it.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.