Henry Ford

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

When prices go up, business goes down.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

President Hoover has done everything any one could do to bring about improvement in business and industry. Everything President Hoover has advised or tried to put into effect has been sound.

No task before our nation is more important than expanding and improving the educational opportunities of all our people. The concept that every American deserves the opportunity to attain the highest level of education of which he is capable is not new to this Administration – it is a traditional ideal of democracy. But it is time that we moved toward the fulfillment of this ideal with more vigor and less delay. For education is both the foundation and the unifying force of our democratic way of life – it is the mainspring of our economic and social progress – it is the highest expression of achievement in our society, ennobling and enriching human life. In short, it is at the same time the most profitable investment society can make and the richest reward it can offer.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Over the years, I have again and again asked fellow believers in a free society how they managed to escape the contagion of their collectivist intellectual environment. No name has been mentioned more often as the source of enlightenment than Friedrich Hayek’s.

Education can’t focus only on developing our wonderful brain. We also need warm-heartedness. This is my view.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees – especially in STEM fields – benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.

You must work on improving your skills every day and never quit.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.