Henry Ford

"History is bunk."

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides."

"The greatest polluters in this world of ours are those fear-polluters and the guilt-pushers."

"Everything that one man can imagine, other men can make real."

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

"The object of living is work, experience, happiness."

"If you do the best work you possibly can, you don't have to worry about failure."

"Believe in the future, the unknown, in all that we as yet only dimly see."

"Exercise is bunk. If you are in good health, you don't need it."

"The highest form of efficiency is the avoidance of unnecessary work."

"It is the customer that pays your wages, not the company."

"You cannot teach an old dog new tricks."

"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."

"The object of education is not to fill the child with a lot of facts from the schoolmaster, but to prepare him to meet the emergencies when they come."

"The only sure foundation of a nobleman is charity."

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

"A market is never saturated with the best product, but it is very quickly saturated with the best seller."

"War is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."

"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."

"The object of all business is service."

"The worst thing we can do for the poor is to make it a crime to be poor."

"Poverty is a state of mind brought on by a lack of vision and a lack of initiative."

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

"There is nothing wrong with salesmanship, but there is everything wrong with high-pressure salesmanship."

"The highest kind of satisfaction is sharing the good things of life with the humblest of those who surround us."

"A far-sighted man is one who plans not only for today, but for the tomorrows to come."

"Everything can be taken away from a man except for one thing: his freedom."

"When you are working towards the solution of a problem, it helps to know where you are heading. It helps even more to know why."

"The man who has the largest capacity for taking pains will carry off the prize."