Henry Ford Quotes

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

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What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

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

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

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A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.

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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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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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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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I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

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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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There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.

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The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

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We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.

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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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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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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.

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Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

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Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

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

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

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We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

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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.

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

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A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

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The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

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

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