Industrialist Quotes

“The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.”

“The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.”

“No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.”

“Thinking is the hardest work we do.”

“Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.”

“Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.”

“The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.”

“Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.”

“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.”

“Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.”

“Whatever you resist will persist.”

“It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.”

“Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.”

“When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.”

“The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.”

“What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power”

“Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.”

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

“The more you think, the more time you have.”

“If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.”

“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.”

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

“Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.”