Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

I think work is the world's greatest fun.

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 brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.