Henry Ford

President Hoover has done everything any one could do to bring about improvement in business and industry. Everything President Hoover has advised or tried to put into effect has been sound.

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry’s 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

If you find out what men want and give them that, you are pleasing them. If you find out what is good for them and give them that, you are performing a service. That’s what we are trying to do.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

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

Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Seeing things that are bothering you written down takes away their power. It gives you a perspective. Helps you contain them.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.