Henry Ford

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Although Mr. Edison was called ‘The Wizard’ of the electrical world and everyone thought that electricity was the coming thing, he actually encouraged me to go with my second car.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

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

Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you’ll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.

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.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.