I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.
Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience
Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.
I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.
There is joy in work.
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
Great companies are built on great products.
I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
Sometimes you just don't like somebody
The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.
The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.
The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.
If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Working together is success.
I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.
Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.
I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.
Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
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 corresponding result to show for it.
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated
The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Political parties are like poets, born, not made.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.
An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.
