Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.
A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.