Henry Ford

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Fairs and public displays are the best means we have yet found of showing large numbers of people the real methods of industry.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

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.

Getting permanent value out of a job means purpose and fitting means to ends.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

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

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

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

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

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

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

We wish all users of Ford cars to know what they are entitled to.

I quickly figured out [that] the one ability I’d better have is to create relationships.