Henry Ford

A low wage business is always insecure.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

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.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?

If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.

The universe, at any given point, in any given time, is expanding indefinitely in all directions. So trust me when I say, ‘you are the center of mine.’

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.