Henry Ford
Henry Ford
Henry Fordwas an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 July 1863
CityGreenfield, MI
CountryUnited States of America
preparation knows
We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
world way complicated
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
hurt men opportunity
The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.
business positive-thinking enough
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
mistake making-mistakes
Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.
spiritual men intellectual
The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.
children people fifteen
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.
country growing-up boys
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.
war profit show-me
Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.
nwo world-government historical
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.
believe soul reincarnation
I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience.
weed apples fruit
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything,
parts-of-life
Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.
men political wages
An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.