Henry Ford

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

In the long run people are going to buy the cheapest and the best article no matter where it is made.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

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.

When prices go up, business goes down.

What America needs most is aviation.

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

The consumer isn’t a moron. She is your wife.

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

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

You can’t do this! We have an arrangement! We have a contract!

To be most effective in sales today, it’s imperative to drop your ‘sales’ mentality and start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you.

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

Hire character. Train skill.

One client didn’t want to go out so had us build him a nightclub in his house.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

Profits are not financial-they’re social. Everybody profits from industry. Politicians don’t understand profits because they can pay bills out of taxation.

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 New York and Los Angeles, you can throw your car keys to the valet and he parks it. Same in Hong Kong and Singapore, the service is off the scale. In London it’s sub-standard to abysmal.

London has got better as it’s become more international – you only have to look at the quality of the restaurants to see how improved it’s become.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.