Henry Ford

Profits are not financial-they’re social. Everybody profits from industry. Politicians don’t understand profits because they can pay bills out of taxation.

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

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

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

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

If there’s only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.