Henry Ford

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

Education not just preparation for life, but part if life itself-a continuous art.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

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.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

President Hoover has done everything any one could do to bring about improvement in business and industry. Everything President Hoover has advised or tried to put into effect has been sound.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

In business, cooperation is essential to success.

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

When prices go up, business goes down.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

I don’t hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard working and pragmatic.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

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

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.’