Henry Ford

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

We have had just one main purpose during these years, and that is to give the people transportation of the most dependable quality at the lowest possible cost. Our car was called the Universal Car thirty years ago, because it fulfilled so many needs; it is The Universal Car today for the same reason.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

Mr. Edison was comfortably well off-he was not a money maker.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

When you do something that you really think is stupid, bad decision, irresponsibleand it just happens and you suffer it then that’s penalty. But if you learn from it it becomes tuition.

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

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.