The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.
When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy’s life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.
Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.
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.
Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.
The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you are right.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more – as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.
There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry’s 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.
Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that’s all.
Working together is success.
Failure is the chance to do it better next time.
You don’t have to hold a position to be a leader.
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.