Henry Ford

Ford Motor Company, assembly line

Modern influential 100 sayings

Sayings by Henry Ford

I will build a motor car for the great multitude... so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one.

1908 — Announcing the Model T
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You can have any color as long as it's black.

1909 — About Model T color options
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Money is the most useless thing in the world; I am not interested in it but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

1928 — Interview about wealth
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The international financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the International Jew: German Jews, French Jews, English Jews, American Jews.

1920 — From his antisemitic publication 'The International Jew'
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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.

1938 — Interview about business practices
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An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

1924 — Interview about education
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The Jew is a producer of nothing but discontent.

1920 — From 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem'
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If you don't think about the future, you won't have one.

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Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by sitting at a desk and letting others do the work for him is doomed to failure.

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I do not believe we can have any freedom in the United States until we have freedom from the Jews.

1922 — Interview with New York World
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The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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The greatest discoveries are made by men who are not afraid to be wrong.

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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Unknown — Attributed, inspirational quote
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The will to do, the soul to dare.

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Chasing after money is a profitless occupation.

1922 — From 'My Life and Work'
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Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.

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There are no big problems, there are only a lot of little problems.

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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought directly. It comes as a by-product of rendering useful service.

1922 — From 'My Life and Work'
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If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

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The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal to them their own.

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