Henry Ford Quotes

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There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is fixed for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

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

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Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

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The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

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

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There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

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Change is not always progress. … A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

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

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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.

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A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

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None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job... Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.

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There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one hundred years.

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An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

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An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

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I don't know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don't care. I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

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Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

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The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

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

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

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Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.

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A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

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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.

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When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.

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The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

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