Industrialist Quotes

“The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.”

“Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.”

“Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.”

“Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.”

“Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.”

“Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.”

“The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.”

“Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.”

“Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.”

“If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.”

“Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.”

“We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.”

“Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.”

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

“Too many men are afraid of being fools.”

“Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.”

“The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.”

“Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.”

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”

“To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.”

“The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.”

“Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.”

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it”

“As we serve our jobs we serve the world.”

“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.”