Henry Ford

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Imitate, assimilate and innovate.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Always pack your uniform on top.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.