Henry Ford - Man Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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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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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