658 Quotes by Henry Ford

Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.

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