Henry Ford

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

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

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

Nothing endures but change.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

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

But to do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

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

Who we are now is all that really matters.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.