Henry Ford

No one loses anything by raising wages as soon as he is able. It has always paid us. Low wages are the most costly any employer can pay. It is like using low-grade material–the waste makes it very expensive in the end. There is no economy in cheap labor or cheap material. The hardest thing I ever had to do was to reduce wages. I think we were the last big company to come to it. Now I am mighty glad that wages are climbing again.

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

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

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

In the long run people are going to buy the cheapest and the best article no matter where it is made.

Education not just preparation for life, but part if life itself-a continuous art.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

I don’t write letters anymore.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.