It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

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.

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

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.