Quotes by Industrialists

When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
Charles M. Schwab
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his life-time for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
Paul Getty
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
My formula for success is rise early work late and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.
Charles M. Schwab
It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes more than enthusiasm I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
Walter Chrysler
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab
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
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
Before everything else getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
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.
Henry Ford
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.
Thomas J. Watson
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
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
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right.
Henry Ford
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
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right.
Henry Ford
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
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
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
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.
Henry Ford
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.
Charles M. Schwab
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
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Henry Ford
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes more than enthusiasm I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
Walter Chrysler
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab
Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford II
The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.
Thomas J. Watson
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
Charles M. Schwab
It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Henry Ford
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Paul Getty
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear but the honest man who does not know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
Owen D. Young
When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.
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
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
The best or nothing at all.
Gottlieb Daimler
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
Contentment is the only real wealth
Albert Nobel
One person cannot make up for the evils of a whole system and it is the system that is to blame - the system of narrowness and of pride, and of exclusiveness, and of no one doing anything for another, unless there is something to be gained in return.
Amy Dillwyn
Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.
Henry Ford