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

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

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.