Henry Ford

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Children have helped me a lot.

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.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

Edison, to a greater extent than has ever been recognized, is the father of American industrial methods.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your own family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out — either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

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.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

[In 1990 on the president of MCA calling and saying ‘We’re going to make you the biggest offer this company has ever made, and I’m going to send it to you by messenger right now.’] It’s 1990. Send me a fax.