Henry Ford

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.

When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

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