I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.