Henry Ford

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

Mr. Edison was comfortably well off-he was not a money maker.

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen. So I’m always game for a good joke, and I’m not so formal in this role. There’s very little that we can’t do that people wouldn’t appreciate.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

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.