Henry Ford

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

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.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

I never made any public statements, at least I tried never to make any public statements. I know I don’t do it well, I become very nervous, I forget what it is that I mean to say, I can’t really convey my logic and my thought to the journalists, so I decided this is not my thing, I really shouldn’t be doing it.

I own buildings. I’m a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

You can’t do this! We have an arrangement! We have a contract!

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

I never insisted that I was a good student.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

I was the most productive when I was in a flex situation. Do not check for me for needless meetings.

I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.