Henry Ford

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

Edison, to a greater extent than has ever been recognized, is the father of American industrial methods.

Fairs and public displays are the best means we have yet found of showing large numbers of people the real methods of industry.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.