Top 431 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Ford - Page 7

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

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

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

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

There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

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.

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

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

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 business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

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.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

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

No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

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

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

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

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over.

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

The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

History's just one darn thing after another.

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.

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.

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

Don't find the fault, find the remedy

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer.

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.

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.

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

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

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

I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

I will build a car for the great multitude.

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

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

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

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

Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .