Henry Ford

I wouldn’t give five cents for all the art in the world.

From the start I had my own ideas about how the business should run. I wanted it to benefit everybody who contributed to its success-stockholders, labor and the American public.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations.

What America needs most is aviation.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

If you can find a way to be truly ambivalent about what people think about you as an artist you’re completely freed up because you just end up doing things that turn you on creatively, and then as a person you really try and drown the noise.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.