Henry Ford

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

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

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.

Getting permanent value out of a job means purpose and fitting means to ends.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

[on Diana’s Death] I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

There is no reality, only perception.

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

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

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.