Henry Ford

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

As betting at the race ring adds neither strength nor speed to the horse, so the exchange of shares in the stock market adds no capital to business, no increase in the production and no purchasing power to the market.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

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

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.