Quotes by Industrialists - Page 2

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
Henry Ford
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford
Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
Henry Green
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
Henry Ford
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Henry Ford
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.
Robert Owen
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.
Charles M. Schwab
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.
Henry Ford
We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.
Thomas J. Watson
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
Walter Chrysler
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
The best or nothing at all.
Gottlieb Daimler
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile
Walter P. Chrysler
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educated barbarians of ancient Rome. These were barbarians who learned to speak--and often to read and write--Latin. They acquired Roman habits of dress and deportment. Many of them handily mastered Roman commercial, engineering and military techniques--but they remained barbarians nonetheless. They failed to develop any understanding, appreciation or love for the art and culture of the great civilization around them.
J. Paul Getty
However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond.
William George Armstrong
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.
Henry Ford
My formula for success is rise early work late and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.
Henry Ford
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Henry Ford
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
Charles M. Schwab
It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.
J. Paul Getty
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.
Sōichirō Honda
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.
Henry Ford
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
Henry Ford
I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.
J.R.D. Tata
No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan or command a work of genius at will. But do we give sufficient thought to the nurture of the young investigator, to providing the right atmosphere and conditions of work and full opportunity for development? It is these things that foster invention and discovery.
J.R.D. Tata
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right.
Henry Ford
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Robert Owen
During a very busy life I have often been asked "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
Sir Richard Tangye
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.
Jamsetji Tata
If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual
Andrew Carnegie
The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford
The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
J. Paul Getty