Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

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.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

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.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.