Henry Ford Quotes

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one...

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

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.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

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.

I am looking for a lot of men who have and infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.