Henry Ford

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

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

Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

President Hoover has done everything any one could do to bring about improvement in business and industry. Everything President Hoover has advised or tried to put into effect has been sound.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.

Blood banks are all closed; you can’t use others to keep you warm.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

Scream in silence. Dance in stillness.