The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
You can’t build up a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
Rather decide almost right than exactly wrong.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done.
Mark Twain
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)
Helmuth von Moltke
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Philip Johnson