Henry Ford

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

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

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth-but wealth as a means, not as an end.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.