History is more or less bunk.
As betting at the race ring adds neither strength nor speed to the horse, so the exchange of shares in the stock market adds no capital to business, no increase in the production and no purchasing power to the market.
Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?
We wish all users of Ford cars to know what they are entitled to.
Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.
Ive learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
I think us bad b*tc*es is a gift from God.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.
The more natural, the better.
In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
When I’m feeling anxious or depressed, I do find it helps to reach for a pen and paper. There is something about writing things down, that hand-eye combination, that makes me feel calmer.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
