Henry Ford

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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

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

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

A low wage business is always insecure.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.