Explore Quotes by Henry Ford

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

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.

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.

A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity - not simply for ourselves but for others - the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

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.

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

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