Henry Ford

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

We do not hire a man’s history, we hire the man.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

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.

My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen. So I’m always game for a good joke, and I’m not so formal in this role. There’s very little that we can’t do that people wouldn’t appreciate.