Henry Ford

Getting permanent value out of a job means purpose and fitting means to ends.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. With a job to supply him with cash, and a plot of land to guarantee him support, the individual is doubly secure. Stocks may fail, but seedtime and harvest do not fail.

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

[on Diana’s Death] I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you “deserve” the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.