Henry Ford

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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.

The basis of peace should be a world federation.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.

Mass production is craftsmanship with the drudgery taken out of it.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

When prices go up, business goes down.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

I will build a motor car for the great multitude – constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. So low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.

Exchange ideas frequently.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

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.