Henry Ford

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

From the start I had my own ideas about how the business should run. I wanted it to benefit everybody who contributed to its success-stockholders, labor and the American public.

I wouldn’t have the Presidency or any political office-don’t want anything to do with it nor have politics have anything to do with me.

Getting permanent value out of a job means purpose and fitting means to ends.

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

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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

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

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

The most you get is what you ask for.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

The menu is not the meal.