Henry Ford

The union organizers are asking us to sit still while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth-but wealth as a means, not as an end.

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

I quickly figured out [that] the one ability I’d better have is to create relationships.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

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.

We have had just one main purpose during these years, and that is to give the people transportation of the most dependable quality at the lowest possible cost. Our car was called the Universal Car thirty years ago, because it fulfilled so many needs; it is The Universal Car today for the same reason.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

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.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

Nobody buys a farm based on whether they think it’s going to rain next year. They buy it because they think it’s a good investment over 10 or 20 years.

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

We wish all users of Ford cars to know what they are entitled to.