To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

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.

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.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.