Industrialist Quotes

“To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition”

“Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.”

“One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.”

“Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.”

“Sometimes you just don't like somebody”

“Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.”

“Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.”

“When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.”

“A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.”

“If it doesn't add value, it's waste.”

“Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.”

“When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.”

“Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.”

“Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.”

“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.”

“Experience is the thing of supreme value".”

“The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.”

“You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.”

“In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.”

“All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.”

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

“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.”

“Understand the difference between being at work and working.”

“Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.”

“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 earth.”