There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
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.
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.