Henry Ford

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

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.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.