Henry Ford

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

No one ever wins a war.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

What is life but education, anyway?

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Nations are great as they are prosperous as they are industrious as they are just.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

A h** neva gets cold

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

There is nothing so stable as change.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

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

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.