Henry Ford

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

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.

As far as competition is concerned, that must continue. But we must learn what competition really is. It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, take the calculated risk, and take action!

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

America is one of the few places in the world where a poorperson can still be obese.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

I don’t know how to drive.

The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

A h** neva gets cold