When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine....
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.
Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
History is more or less bunk.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with ever...
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.