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.
Henry FordExercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Henry FordWhen Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.
Henry FordMany persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.
Henry FordIf the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.
Henry FordAmerica is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.
Henry FordThere should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.
Henry FordA market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
Henry FordUnder pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.
Henry FordOf course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.
Henry FordWe try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
Henry FordThe whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Henry FordBusinesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done
Henry FordEnthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry FordThe gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
Henry FordCompetition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
Henry FordThe fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.
Henry FordThe boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid
Henry FordMost people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry FordEvery man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.
Henry FordAny man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.
Henry FordMachines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.
Henry FordPeople are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.
Henry FordThe man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry FordThere had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty Orientalism which had insidiously affected every channel of expression...The fact that these influences are all traceable to one racial source [Judaism] is something to be reckoned with...Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are sapping the moral stamina of the people.
Henry FordThe Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy
Henry FordI am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.
Henry FordNo government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.
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