Henry Ford

People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

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.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

Truth over Harmony.

The secret of life is to validate your existence.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.