Henry Ford

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer. In the case of an automobile the sale of the machine is only something in the nature of an introduction. If the machine does not give service, then it is better for the manufacturer if he never had the introduction, for he will have the worst of all advertisements-a dissatisfied customer.

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.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Truth over Harmony.

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.