Henry Ford

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

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.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

We do not hire a man’s history, we hire the man.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

We are each a figment of our own imagination.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.