Quotes from Henry Ford

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

We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

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.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

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.

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

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.

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

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.