Henry Ford

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

We have had just one main purpose during these years, and that is to give the people transportation of the most dependable quality at the lowest possible cost. Our car was called the Universal Car thirty years ago, because it fulfilled so many needs; it is The Universal Car today for the same reason.

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry’s 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry and started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

If you can find a way to be truly ambivalent about what people think about you as an artist you’re completely freed up because you just end up doing things that turn you on creatively, and then as a person you really try and drown the noise.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.