henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.”

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”

“Money is like an arm or a leg—use it or lose it.”  [in an interview in the Nov. 8, 1931 issue of The New York Times]

“The question, ‘Who ought to be boss?’ is like asking ‘Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.”

“Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.”

“You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.”