The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

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