Occupation: Industrialist Birth: July 30, 1863 Death: April 7, 1947
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success..
The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it..
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….
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….
For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine..
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..
Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business.
I will build a car for the great multitude..
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are ..
Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally..
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited..
I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad..
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing..
The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of ….
The object of living is work, experience, happiness..
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all..
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it..
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs..
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor..