Occupation: Industrialist Birth: July 30, 1863 Death: April 7, 1947
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far..
I will build a car for the great multitude..
I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad..
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems..
For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine..
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are ..
The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it..
Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally..
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and m….
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success..
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determinatio….
Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living?….
As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow.
No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things..
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited..
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excell….
People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large kee….
Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business.
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them..
It is the customer that pays the wages.