If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

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.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

I will build a car for the great multitude.