Henry Ford Quotes

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

History is more or less bunk.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

A low wage business is always insecure.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

There is no such thing as no chance.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

There is joy in work.

The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.

History's just one darn thing after another.

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

There's no such thing as no chance.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.