Henry Ford Quotes

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As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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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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People can have the model T in any color—so long as it's black.

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Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

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

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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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The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

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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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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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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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