Henry Ford Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

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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.

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There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

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Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

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

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Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

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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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I am not a reformer. I think there is entirely too much attempt at reforming in the world and that we pay too much attention to reformers. We have two kinds of reformers. Both are nuisances. The man who calls himself a reformer wants to smash things. He is the sort of man who would tear up a whole shirt because the collar button did not fit the buttonhole. It would never occur to him to enlarge the buttonhole. This sort of reformer never under any circumstances knows what he is doing. Experience and reform do not go together. A reformer cannot keep his zeal at white heat in the presence of a fact. He must discard all facts.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

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

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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

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

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The economic fundamental is labour. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men 's labour that makes the harvest what it is. That is the economic fundamental: every one of us is working with material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to us by Nature.

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

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

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Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

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