Henry Ford Quotes

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

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

If the present faulty system is more profitable to a financier than a more perfect system would be, and if that financier values his few remaining years of personal profits more highly than he would value the honour of making a contribution to the life of the world by helping to erect a better system, then there is no way of preventing a clash of interests. But it is fair to say to the selfish financial interests that, if their fight is waged to perpetuate a system just because it profits them, then their fight is already lost. Why should finance fear? The world will still be here. Men will do business with one another. There will be money and there will be need of masters of the mechanism of money. Nothing is going to depart but the knots and tangles. There will be some readjustments, of course. Banks will no longer be the masters of industry. They will be the servants of industry.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only more intelligently.

What we need is some financial engineers.

The genius of the Jew is to live off people, not off land, nor off the production of commodities from raw materials, but off people. Let other people till the soil; the Jew, if he can, will live off the tiller. Let other people toil at trades and manufacture; the Jew will exploit the fruits of their work. That is his particular genius. If this genius be described as parasitic, the term would seem to be justified by a certain fitness.

I've never made a flight in an airplane, and I don't know that I'm particularly anxious to. I would, though, like to take a trip in a . Bring one out here some time, won't you, Doctor Eckener, and give me a ride?

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow.

International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew: German-Jews, French-Jews, English-Jews, American-Jews ... the Jew is the threat.