Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only 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. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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.

I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

Every experience is worth having.