Henry Ford

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry and started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

There is nothing ever wrong with ability, ambition, achievement; but they can easily be wronged by being used to bad ends.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

Credulity is the man’s weakness but the child’s strength.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.