Henry Ford

Competition is the lifeblood of industry.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

From the start I had my own ideas about how the business should run. I wanted it to benefit everybody who contributed to its success-stockholders, labor and the American public.

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

There should be rivalry between men and between business.

If a young man wants to fit himself for the Politics of tomorrow, let him fit himself into essential industry for the purpose of learning how best to conduct it for the whole public good.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

My entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn’t go as planned and that’s OK.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

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

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.