For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.