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

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

The more you think, the more time you have.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.