Henry Ford

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

Teach children not to be gullible.

A peaceful nation is one that has the means to make war and restrains.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

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.

A world where men ran half our homes and women ran half our institutions would be just a much better world.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

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

Cutting wages is not the way to recovery. Raise wages and improve the product.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Leverage: don’t make deals without it!

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer. In the case of an automobile the sale of the machine is only something in the nature of an introduction. If the machine does not give service, then it is better for the manufacturer if he never had the introduction, for he will have the worst of all advertisements-a dissatisfied customer.

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

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