I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.

History's just one darn thing after another.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.