Henry Ford

Profits are not financial-they’re social. Everybody profits from industry. Politicians don’t understand profits because they can pay bills out of taxation.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

There should be rivalry between men and between business.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

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

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Life is like improvised jazz. We cannot regulate all the variables. We must play it with panache and flair as best we can.

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?”

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

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