Henry Ford

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

Teach children not to be gullible.

A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

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.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.