Henry Ford

There should be rivalry between men and between business.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

What is life but education, anyway?

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

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.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Do it! People who succeed don’t just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they’re looking for.

If you wish to clear away the clouds of thought, simply keep your mind in the present.

I think I always feel like if everything went to shit, I would just teach improv at a theatre.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

I think I am basically a happy person.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

[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.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

All systems either of preference or of restraint … completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.