Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth-but wealth as a means, not as an end.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.