The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.