It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.