Henry Ford

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Anything that is not right, whether it temporarily favors the employees or the employers, cannot last-because it is not right.

No one ever wins a war.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

There is nothing so stable as change.

There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

Stand up and walk out of your history.

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.

“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.