658 Quotes by Henry Ford

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

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

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.