The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford Quotations
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Reading musses up my mind.
It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
History is more or less bunk.
History is bunk.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
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.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.