Henry Ford

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

See what a 25-cent raise will do to us, said Mr. Ford. So they figured the daily and monthly cost of a 25-cent increase. Put on another quarter and see what that will cost, he said. And so they went on, 25 cents a step. Finally the wage of $2.34 stood at $4.75–more than 100 percent increase. One of the associates–a good financial head–remarked rather sarcastically that if they were going to be fools, why not be first-class fools and make it $5. All right, said Mr. Ford, let’s make it $5.

Christmas stands for the human factor which makes life tolerable midst the hurry of commerce and production. All of us need the annealing effect of Christ’s example to relieve the hardening we get in the daily struggle for material success.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

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

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I like to surprise myself.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

You have to know how to defend yourself.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Every loss of life is terrible.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.