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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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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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.

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Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

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

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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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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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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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Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out — they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

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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 can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

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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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A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

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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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I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one — and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

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

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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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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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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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International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew: German—Jews, French— Jews, English—Jews, American—Jews... the Jew is the threat.

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

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No work with interest is ever hard. I am always certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough.

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Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.

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