Henry Ford

We have only started with the development of our country-we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

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

I think; therefore I am.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Imitate, assimilate and innovate.

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

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

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.