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

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

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

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

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

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.