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.
Henry FordDo you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.
Henry FordWhether you think you can, or you think you can't, you still have to file your 990 each year.
Henry FordI invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
Henry FordThree rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
Henry FordAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry FordThe way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
Henry FordMost people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.
Henry FordAlways demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.
Henry FordThe 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.
Henry FordWhy should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
Henry FordI cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry FordI do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry FordThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordNothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.
Henry FordJews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.
Henry FordThe human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .
Henry FordThe 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.
Henry FordHistory doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
Henry FordWhere 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.
Henry FordIt is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
Henry FordThere are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.
Henry FordCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordI invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
Henry FordWe do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.
Henry FordAs a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.
Henry Ford