Henry Ford

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

I do not believe in war, because it is an antiquated way of settling differences.

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

Chasing after money is a endless race. Better to create something that people need and money will follow.

Our working day is eight hours. That does not mean that every minute of the eight hours is spent in work. It means that the man is expected to be on hand eight hours.

Money is an instrument, not an end.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

There are two things that are more difficult than to get a man to work: to get a man to think, and to get a man to understand that he is not working.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at the costs.

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–and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.

There can be no freedom without economic freedom.