Henry Ford

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

A low wage business is always insecure.

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Truth over Harmony.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.