Henry Ford

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer. In the case of an automobile the sale of the machine is only something in the nature of an introduction. If the machine does not give service, then it is better for the manufacturer if he never had the introduction, for he will have the worst of all advertisements-a dissatisfied customer.

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

The union organizers are asking us to sit still while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free.

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.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

But I do know there are not enough syllables to spell out how much I love you. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love… You are my every moment, my every hour, my every day, my every season, and I know this isn’t poetry and it’s certainly not a haiku, it’s just all the things I needed to say to you.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

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.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

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

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.