Henry Ford

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

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

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

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

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.