Henry Ford

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

A happy and contented nation is an example to the whole world. Where there is contentment there must be peace.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Whatever it is, people who have more spare time than people ever had before get the sense of whirlwind pressure,and repeat the common criticism that ‘we are going too fast.’ Yet the people live longer than ever before, live with less effort, live on a higher plane. Is it possible that this common saying about our rapid pace is just another thoughtless mob suggestion?

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.