Henry Ford

I believe that any stock that is sold should have real value as automobile or bushel of potatoes, and stock market should be run as a vegetable market.

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they’ll work out their own salvation.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

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.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

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

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.