Henry Ford Quotes

Don't find the fault, find the remedy

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so.

Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose

Minicars produce miniprofits.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

I'll sleep well tonight

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

Working together is success.

Who stops learning may be old.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.