Henry Ford

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.

Although Mr. Edison was called ‘The Wizard’ of the electrical world and everyone thought that electricity was the coming thing, he actually encouraged me to go with my second car.

Profits made out of the distress of the people are always much smaller than profits made out of the most lavish service of the people at the lowest prices that competent management can make possible.

In teaching the children at Greenfield Village, we are trying to get back some of the solid McGuffey qualities.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

We have only started with the development of our country-we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

We are each a figment of our own imagination.

There are ships sailing to my ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.