Henry Ford

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.

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

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

We have had just one main purpose during these years, and that is to give the people transportation of the most dependable quality at the lowest possible cost. Our car was called the Universal Car thirty years ago, because it fulfilled so many needs; it is The Universal Car today for the same reason.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Would you believe me if I said you were three shades short of all my favorite hues and that I’ve been trying for years to pick words from my garden throat in attempts to explain to you all the things I can’t explain. Or what if I said I have nothing to say other than I love you in the simplest of ways.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.

You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Truth over Harmony.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.