Henry Ford

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

I wouldn’t have the Presidency or any political office-don’t want anything to do with it nor have politics have anything to do with me.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Education not just preparation for life, but part if life itself-a continuous art.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.

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

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.