Henry Ford

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

You can’t tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don’t mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don’t leave anything over.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

If a young man wants to fit himself for the Politics of tomorrow, let him fit himself into essential industry for the purpose of learning how best to conduct it for the whole public good.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

Pardon me if I haunt you tonight.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

You can do anything, but not everything.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

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.