Thomas Alva Edison

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Henry Ford

"Our customers can have a model T in any color they like, as long as it's black."

Thomas Alva Edison

"All progress, all success springs from thinking."

Henry Ford

"Higher wages are not an additional cost under proper management. Better-paid workmen are more willing and more efficient. Better material is not necessarily more expensive. On the contrary, it is always more economical."

Thomas Alva Edison

"I shall make the electric light so cheap that only the rich will be able to burn candles."

Henry Ford

"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." [Emphasis added.]