Henry Ford

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. With a job to supply him with cash, and a plot of land to guarantee him support, the individual is doubly secure. Stocks may fail, but seedtime and harvest do not fail.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.

Now I’m a warrior.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Some life lessons don’t ever change. But how you embrace them will distinguish you from the pack.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.