Henry Ford

No American ought to be compelled to strike for his rights. He ought to receive them naturally, easily, as a matter of course.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

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

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or sad; rich or poor.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Let us not, however, upon this account rashly conclude that she is capable of supporting any burden, nor even be too confident that she could support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse….I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.