After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
When you have able managers of high character running businesses about which they are passionate, you can have a dozen or more reporting to you and still have time for an afternoon nap. Conversely, if you have even one person reporting to you who is deceitful, inept or uninterested, you will find yourself with more than you can handle.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible. - 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
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
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. - Henry Ford
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. - Henry Ford
Some men may succeed because they are destined to, but most men succeed because they are determined to. - Henry Ford
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. he that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. - Andrew Carnegie
I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man. - Andrew Carnegie
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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