Henry Ford

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

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.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.