Henry Ford

I wouldn’t give five cents for all the art in the world.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.

We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

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

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.