Henry Ford

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

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I’d like to devote about three years to the elimination of the cow. There’s not reason in the world why the chemist can’t discover the cow’s secret of converting vegetation into dairy products. And there’s less reason why the chemist can’t do a better job of it after he learns how.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

No American ought to be compelled to strike for his rights. He ought to receive them naturally, easily, as a matter of course.

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.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.

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.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Life has two rules: 1. Never quite 2. Always remember 1.