Henry Ford

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

I wouldn’t have the Presidency or any political office-don’t want anything to do with it nor have politics have anything to do with me.

We do not hire a man’s history, we hire the man.

There should be rivalry between men and between business.

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

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing, but what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

Mr. Watson , come here, I want you

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.