Henry Ford
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.Collection: Men
The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.Collection: Lines
For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.Collection: Men
Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.Collection: Looks
You can get it in any color, as long as it is blackCollection: Color
Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.Collection: Challenges
The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.Collection: Giving
Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.Collection: Insufficient
Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.Collection: Hard Work
Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.Collection: Men
Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!Collection: Song
Political parties are like poets, born, not made.Collection: Party
I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.Collection: Needs
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.Collection: Business
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.Collection: Men
I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.Collection: Beautiful
We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.Collection: Principles
History's just one darn thing after another.Collection: Just One
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.Collection: Inspirational
We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.Collection: Believe
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.Collection: Mind
Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.Collection: Insightful
When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.Collection: Country
He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.Collection: Believe
A low wage business is always insecure.Collection: Insecure
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.Collection: Inspiring
Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.Collection: Quality
If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.Collection: People
The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.Collection: Air
The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.Collection: Depressing
We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.Collection: Lying
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Jobs
If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.Collection: Famous Inspirational
The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.Collection: Men
None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job... Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.Collection: Jobs
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Men
Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.Collection: Operations
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Children
As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.Collection: Kings
Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.Collection: Thinking
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Collection: Inspirational
All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.Collection: Money
Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.Collection: Integrity
Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.Collection: Hard Work
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.Collection: Inspirational
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.Collection: Money