Henry Ford

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

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.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

If I had asked them what they had wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

We’re cool for the summer.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season.