Henry Ford

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

As betting at the race ring adds neither strength nor speed to the horse, so the exchange of shares in the stock market adds no capital to business, no increase in the production and no purchasing power to the market.

If I had asked them what they had wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

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.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.