Occupation: Industrialist Birth: July 30, 1863 Death: April 7, 1947
I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means..
Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a cor….
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman..
Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business..
A nation that knows how to work will never suffer..
It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression..
You can get it in any color, as long as it is black.
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edi….
If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so..
If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear..
When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out..
For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No, I have no desi….
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?.
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….
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 ye….
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk.….
Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them..
All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own..
Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from childre….
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?.
The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead..