Henry Ford

I will build a motor car for the great multitude – constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. So low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

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

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.

Cutting wages is not the way to recovery. Raise wages and improve the product.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

If someone out there doesn’t agree with me, then somewhere a village is missing their idiot.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?