Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

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.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.