Henry Ford

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

No one loses anything by raising wages as soon as he is able. It has always paid us. Low wages are the most costly any employer can pay. It is like using low-grade material–the waste makes it very expensive in the end. There is no economy in cheap labor or cheap material. The hardest thing I ever had to do was to reduce wages. I think we were the last big company to come to it. Now I am mighty glad that wages are climbing again.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

I’d like to devote about three years to the elimination of the cow. There’s not reason in the world why the chemist can’t discover the cow’s secret of converting vegetation into dairy products. And there’s less reason why the chemist can’t do a better job of it after he learns how.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.

There is no reality, only perception.

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.