Occupation: Industrialist Birth: July 30, 1863 Death: April 7, 1947
Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living..
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it..
The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much intereste….
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of succe….
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….
There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the ….
Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves..
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others..
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the r….
No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles n….
There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. T….
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed..
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures..
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs..
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere..
It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard..
As we serve our jobs we serve the world..
Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime..
I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction….
A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business.
The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others..