Henry Ford

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

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

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

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

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.