Henry Ford

A happy and contented nation is an example to the whole world. Where there is contentment there must be peace.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

If a young man wants to fit himself for the Politics of tomorrow, let him fit himself into essential industry for the purpose of learning how best to conduct it for the whole public good.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry’s 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

Write drunk, revise sober.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.