Henry Ford

People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

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.

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

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth-but wealth as a means, not as an end.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

When I’m feeling anxious or depressed, I do find it helps to reach for a pen and paper. There is something about writing things down, that hand-eye combination, that makes me feel calmer.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.