Henry Ford
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
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.
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
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.
Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .Collection: Mean
Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.Collection: Mistake
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.Collection: Inspiring
Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.Collection: Believe
A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.Collection: Inspirational
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.Collection: Leadership
Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.Collection: People
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.Collection: Enthusiasm For Life
Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.Collection: Hard Work
Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.Collection: Believe
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.Collection: Two
The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.Collection: Hurt
Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.Collection: Thinking
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.Collection: Motivational
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.Collection: Wages
Who stops learning may be old.Collection: May
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.Collection: Men
A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.Collection: Feet
We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.Collection: Use
No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.Collection: Crush
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.Collection: Weed
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Country
If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so.Collection: Thinking
At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.Collection: Children
To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.Collection: Beautiful
No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.Collection: Men
Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are rightCollection: Able
The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lastsCollection: People
A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor businessCollection: Doe
..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.Collection: Past
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.Collection: Moral
Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.Collection: Moving
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.Collection: War
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer.Collection: Cancer
The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.Collection: Fall
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.Collection: Men
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you still have to file your 990 each year.Collection: Thinking
There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .Collection: People
Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.Collection: Confused
Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better lookingCollection: Clothings
I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.Collection: Art