Henry Ford

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

Fairs and public displays are the best means we have yet found of showing large numbers of people the real methods of industry.

If a young man wants to fit himself for the Politics of tomorrow, let him fit himself into essential industry for the purpose of learning how best to conduct it for the whole public good.

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.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

I wouldn’t have the Presidency or any political office-don’t want anything to do with it nor have politics have anything to do with me.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It’s a lovely place to be, but it’s not extravagant.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

I never wanted this kind of life that I’m still living.