Ford, Henry

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

"There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

"Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."

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

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it."

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

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

"People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black."

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." - quoted in Chicago Tribune