Quotes By Henry Ford

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.