“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”

“We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.”

“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.”

“It ought to be the employer’s ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman’s ambition to make it possible”

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

“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”