Henry Ford

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

"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."

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."

"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."

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

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

"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."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."