Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

When prices go up, business goes down.

Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man’s back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

Children have helped me a lot.

Getting permanent value out of a job means purpose and fitting means to ends.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

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