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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If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

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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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The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

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Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

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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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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

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An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

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Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel—only a means to an end.

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Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business that misuses what it has will continue to misuse what it can get.

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

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Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

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We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

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

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

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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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What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

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The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do 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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My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

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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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I've never made a flight in an airplane, and I don't know that I'm particularly anxious to. I would, though, like to take a trip in a dirigible. Bring one out here some time, won't you, Doctor Eckener, and give me a ride?

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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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We're going to try to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas.

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Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

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

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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

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

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