Henry Ford

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. With a job to supply him with cash, and a plot of land to guarantee him support, the individual is doubly secure. Stocks may fail, but seedtime and harvest do not fail.

When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.

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.

Opinions are like asses, every body’s got one!

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

A h** neva gets cold

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

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

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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

You can do anything, but not everything.