Industrialist Quotes

“Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.”

“The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.”

“History's just one darn thing after another.”

“Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.”

“Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.”

“Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.”

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”

“Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.”

“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.”

“We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.”

“Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.”

“I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.”

“There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.”

“An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.”

“Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.”

“A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.”

“It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.”

“Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.”

“We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.”

“The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.”

“You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.”

“As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.”

“The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts”

“A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business”

“An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.”