Henry Ford

What I greatly hope for these children everywhere, is a new attitude toward life–free from the gullibility which thinks we can get something for nothing; free from the greed which thinks any permanent good can come of overreaching others; and, above all, expectant of change, so that when life gives them a jolt they will be fully prepared to push on eagerly along new lines.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

Fairs and public displays are the best means we have yet found of showing large numbers of people the real methods of industry.

There can be no bosses in our country except the people. The job of the government is to serve, not to dominate.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. With a job to supply him with cash, and a plot of land to guarantee him support, the individual is doubly secure. Stocks may fail, but seedtime and harvest do not fail.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.