Henry Ford

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

"Believe in the work, believe in yourself, and there will never be a time when your talents are wasted."

"I start where the last man left off."

"It is the customer that pays your salary, not the company."

"The question is not is it easy, but is it worth doing."

"Change is the only constant. Recognize it and you will be assured of success."

"A business which makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Thinking men cannot be ruled."

"The man who will be useful must have a definite purpose."

"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a wife who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"A warehouse full of goods is like a book full of unused ideas."

"Improvement is half as good as affliction sometimes, and the afflicted are better than the improved."

"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not going to make money nor will he find much love in the world."

"Economy is the method of spending money and time."

"I used to think that if I believed hard enough, the world would give up its secrets to me. I was wrong."

"The only law that matters is supply and demand."

"If you're not trying to do better today than you did yesterday, then you're not trying."

"The way to learn an occupation is to work at it."

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."

"The ideal system of efficiency consists of not having any system at all."

"A business that makes nothing but money is beneath the dignity of being called a business."

"Time is the greatest teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students."

"The only true crime is poverty."

"There is no disgrace in failure if you've done your best."

"All the reason for a smile is on your side of the face."

"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living."

"Learning to think is learning to live."