Henry Ford Men Quotations

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

It 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.

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

No 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.

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

When 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.

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.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

We 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.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

Machines 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.

The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

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

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

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.

Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

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

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

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.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

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.

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.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

Many 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.

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.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

The 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.

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.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

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

You 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.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

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.

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.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

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.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

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.

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

A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.

Any 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.