Henry Ford

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. I got the idea from a book by Orlando Smith. Until I discovered this theory I was unsettled and dissatisfied-without a compass, so to speak. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan. I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. There was time enough to plan and to create. I wouldn’t give five cents for seeing all the world, because I feel there is nothing in the five continents and on the five seas that I have not somehow seen. Somewhere is a master mind sending brain wave messages to us. There is a Great Spirit. I never did anything by my own volition. I was pushed by invisible forces within and without me. We inherit a native knowledge from a previous existence. Gospel of reincarnation is essence of all knowledge. I do not know where we come from or go to but we accumulate experience. Someday it will be possible to measure the soul. We all retain memories of past lives.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I like to surprise myself.

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.