Henry Ford

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry’s 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

In the long run people are going to buy the cheapest and the best article no matter where it is made.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

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

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.