I have had a lot of success with failure

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

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 first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.