Henry Ford

There can be no bosses in our country except the people. The job of the government is to serve, not to dominate.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

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.

Mr. Edison was comfortably well off-he was not a money maker.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. With a job to supply him with cash, and a plot of land to guarantee him support, the individual is doubly secure. Stocks may fail, but seedtime and harvest do not fail.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

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

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

I really don’t retain information – by the time I arrive wherever I’m going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

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.

I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice, and second would be New York. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I’m used to four different seasons; it’s difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

If your dreams don’t scare you they are too small.

No one should buy on reputation alone. They should come and see it and inspect it, feel it and touch it.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

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.