Industrialist Quotes

“I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.”

“The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.”

“Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.”

“Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.”

“When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.”

“The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.”

“The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.”

“People are as happy as they choose to be.”

“Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.”

“Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.”

“You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.”

“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. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.”

“Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free”

“The object of living is work, experience, happiness.”

“I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.”

“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 years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

“If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.”

“The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.”

“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. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.”

“A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.”

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”

“The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.”

“A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.”

“I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.”