Henry Ford

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry and started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

This is no dress rehearsal.

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

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

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Teach children not to be gullible.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!