Henry Ford

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.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

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

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

Some life lessons don’t ever change. But how you embrace them will distinguish you from the pack.

The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

People 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.

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.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.

Now I’m a warrior.