Henry Ford

Ford (1863 - 1947). born near Dearborn, Michigan, was an American industrialist without equal. After starting work as a machinist, and becoming chief engineer at Thomas Edison's Edison Illuminating Co., he went on to found the Ford Motor Company in 1903. While he was not the first to invent an automobile, Ford was the first to make use of assembly lines - allowing cars to be mass produced at affordable prices. Over 15 million of his original "Model T" cars were sold, and the industry he created has had a pronounced effect on the face of the planet.

1. History is more or less bunk.

2. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

3. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

4. Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right.

5. It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

6. A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

7. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

8. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

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

10. 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.

11. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

12. 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.

Benjamin Franklin

Franklin (1706-1790), born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an American author, printer, inventor, scientist, publisher, printer, and diplomat. He was truly a man of many talents. Franklin was known for his wit and humor, much of which was published inPoor Richard's Almanac, and for his proof that lightning was a form of electricity by experimenting with a kite in a thunderstorm. He played a pivotal role in the revolutionary and formative years of the United States. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776, represented the US in France during the war, and was involved in negotiating the peace with Britain in 1781. He was a stabilizing figure at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Franklin founded the world's first public fire department, the first public lending library, and what later became the University of Pennsylvania.

1. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

2. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

3. The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

4. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.

5. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a big ship.

6. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he will never be disappointed.

7. Wealth is not his who has it but his who enjoys it.

8. Creditors have better memories than debtors.

9. He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

10. If a man could have half his wishes he could double his troubles.

11. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

12. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.

13. He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.