Henry Ford

"The most difficult thing in life is to make a resolve to do something and then do it."

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible."

"The greatest revolution in this world is the revolution of supply and demand."

"We want to construct banjos as we construct automobiles."

"Work is the best form of happiness and healing."

"The public is the final arbiter of the value of any product or service."

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

"It makes no difference who you are or what you are doing; if you do not do it better than the next man, you will lose your job."

"The greatest threat to our existence is not physical but mental stagnation."

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started right now."

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not."

"The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this."

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

"Thinking is hard work, which is probably why so few engage in it."

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain."

"The greatest thing we can produce is character. We are not here merely to make a living; we are here to enrich the world."

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars."

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but only about doing the job better each day."

"Money is like an arm or a leg—use it or lose it."

"The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happines only thrive on work."

"Genius is not born; it is made by hard work."

"The farther you look back, the farther you can look forward."

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."

"An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or special information... An educated man is one who knows how to find out what he does not know."

"Aeroplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."