Henry Ford

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

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.