Henry Ford Quotes

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

In any business, you have to evolve.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.