Henry Ford

Christmas stands for the human factor which makes life tolerable midst the hurry of commerce and production. All of us need the annealing effect of Christ’s example to relieve the hardening we get in the daily struggle for material success.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

In the long run people are going to buy the cheapest and the best article no matter where it is made.

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

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

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

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.