People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

Who stops learning may be old.

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.

No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

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

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.