You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over.
Henry FordThere are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.
Henry FordA 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.
Henry FordWhen everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry FordI adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.
Henry FordThis company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.
Henry FordSince 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.
Henry FordYou must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.
Henry FordNo one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.
Henry FordOne needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.
Henry FordOne who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Henry FordThe longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.
Henry FordWhy use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?
Henry FordTo me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.
Henry FordSpeculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Henry FordAny man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
Henry FordI 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.
Henry FordThat the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
Henry FordA manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
Henry FordThe question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.
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