Henry Ford

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Mr. Edison was comfortably well off-he was not a money maker.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

As far as competition is concerned, that must continue. But we must learn what competition really is. It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

No one loses anything by raising wages as soon as he is able. It has always paid us. Low wages are the most costly any employer can pay. It is like using low-grade material–the waste makes it very expensive in the end. There is no economy in cheap labor or cheap material. The hardest thing I ever had to do was to reduce wages. I think we were the last big company to come to it. Now I am mighty glad that wages are climbing again.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.

Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy… The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.