Henry Ford

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

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The things you own end up owning you.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I’m pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of ‘em. I’m looking behind me driving like hell.

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.