Henry Ford

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

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

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

Mr. Watson , come here, I want you

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

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

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?