“The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.”
“It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.”
“A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.”
“Who stops learning may be old.”
“There is no such thing as no chance.”
“The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
“Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.”
“Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
“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.”
“The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.”
“He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.”
“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.”
“Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.”
“When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.”
“Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.”
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
“Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.”
“Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.”
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
“One who fears failure limits his activities.”
“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.”
“Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.”
“The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .”
“Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.”
