Henry Ford

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

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

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

She isn’t the sunrise, she’s the f**king sun.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

We have only started with the development of our country-we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface.

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.