Henry Ford

There can be no bosses in our country except the people. The job of the government is to serve, not to dominate.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

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

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

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

If the boss stands in the way of men getting what they earn, he is not fit to be boss.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

Let us not forget: I didn’t just wake up First Lady… I mean, I went to law school, I practised law, I worked for the city, I ran a nonprofit (and) I was an executive at a hospital. I’ve been in the world. I’ve worked in every sector, and you don’t do that without coming up against some stuff. You know, having your feelings hurt, having people say things about you that aren’t true… Life hits you, so over the course of living, you learn how to protect yourself in it. You learn to take in what you need and get rid of the stuff that’s clearly not true.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

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.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

The basis of peace should be a world federation.

Teach children not to be gullible.