Henry Ford

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

A low wage business is always insecure.

Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

Don’t go through life, GROW through life.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or philosophy.

All heiresses are beautiful.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I’m pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of ‘em. I’m looking behind me driving like hell.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.