Henry Ford

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

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

We have only started with the development of our country-we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface.

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can’t read it afterwards.

My dream was to have a steady job, was not to be on the road, to exist like a guy that goes to work as a mechanic or a carpenter and knows he’s gonna have a job.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

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

The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard working and pragmatic.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

When you are in real estate, you are going to make some mistakes.

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

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.

My definition of an executive’s job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

The consumer isn’t a moron. She is your wife.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?