Henry Ford

President Hoover has done everything any one could do to bring about improvement in business and industry. Everything President Hoover has advised or tried to put into effect has been sound.

What America needs most is aviation.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

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

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

History is more or less bunk.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

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

When you have the right script for your life, you will always be the star of the show.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

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

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.