Henry Ford

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The young people got me interested in aviation. It is part of the motor age. Development is dependent on power.

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.

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.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

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

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

I don’t know how to drive.

You have to be odd to be number one.

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

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Die, but do not retreat.