Henry Ford

Quotes

• “My objection to bankers has nothing to do with personalities. I am not against bankers as such. We stand very much in ne...”
• “Business will control money instead of money controlling business. The ruinous interest system will be greatly modified....”
• “The banker is, as I have noted, by training and because of his position, totally unsuited to the conduct of industry. If...”
• “I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual ...”
• “So, while the people are indeed supreme over the written Constitution, the spiritual constitution is supreme over them. ...”
• “The genius of the Jew is to live off people, not off land, nor off the production of commodities from raw materials, but...”
• “I don't know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don't care. I don't know much about history, ...”
• “Only workers are forbidden to be internationalists. It's perfectly proper for J. P. Morgan and Henry Ford; for the banke...”
• “We are not against borrowing money and we are not against bankers. We are against trying to make borrowed money take the...”
• “Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,00...”
• “The economic fundamental is labour. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to ...”
• “Henry Ford (1922). Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent. p. 323; as cited i...”
• “The earliest published incident of this yet located is in "32 Mystical Connections for Advertising Buffs" by Ram Ray, in...”
• “Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let o...”
• “Adolf Hitler, attributed in Bill McGraw, "Forced Labor and Ford: History of Nazi Labor Stares Ford in the Face", Detroit...”
• “The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is a serious quest...”
• “Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is th...”
• “Remarks from the witness stand, to a court in Mount Clemens, Michigan (July 1919), as quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A...”
• “Jews have always controlled the business [...]. The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada [...] is ex...”
• “The average successful banker is by no means so intelligent and resourceful a man as is the average successful business ...”
• “I've never made a flight in an airplane, and I don't know that I'm particularly anxious to. I would, though, like to tak...”
• “Every year Jews make more and more the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millio...”
• “Samantha Bee, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, (February 7, 2018); as quoted in Tracy Brown, "Samantha Bee reminds us tha...”
• “The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years ...”
• “It is perhaps well enough that the people of the Nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for i...”
• “You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They d...”
• “Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn writing under the pen name Francis Stewart Campbell (1943), Menace of the Herd, or, Procrustes...”
• “International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew: German-Jews, French-Jews, En...”
• “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things fro...”
• “Industrialist Henry Ford hated jazz. He thought it was a Jewish conspiracy to use black music to get good white people i...”
• “Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close...”
• “Henry Ford, quoted in New York World, 1919, as cited in: Martin Allen (2002). Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Bet...”
• “There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fiel...”
• “As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and...”
• “Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disg...”
• “The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do...”
• “Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish, or arrogant, or greedy, the money bring...”
• “As quoted in Biopolymers, Polyamides and Complex Proteinaceous Materials I (2003) by Stephen R. Fahnestock, Alexander St...”
• “Raymond J. Brown. "Henry Ford Says, 'There Is Always Room for More'," in: Popular Science, Vol. 106, nr. 2 (February 192...”
• “Patrick Vlaskovits, "Henry Ford, Innovation, and That "Faster Horse" Quote," in Harvard Business Review (August 29, 2011...”
• “It will take a hundred years to tell whether he helped us or hurt us, but he certainly didn't leave us where he found us...”
• “Quoted in The Zanesville Sunday Times-Signal [Zanesville, Ohio] (15 March 1931): On reasons for the Great Depression”
• “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
• “Variant: If the American people knew the corruption in our money system there would be revolution before morning.”
• “John Kenneth Galbraith, as quoted in Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time (1997) by Daniel Gross, p. 79”
• “February 11, 1934; quoted in: Peter Collier, ‎David Horowitz (2001). The Fords: An American Epic. p. 108”
• “Interview with Bruce Barton, "It Would Be Fun To Start Over Again," The American Magazine (April 1921)”
• “Nick Hanauer in "Beware fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming", TED (conference)(August 2014)]”
• “As quoted in International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (1951) by William S. Walsh”
• “History is bunk. What difference does it make how many times the ancient Greeks flew their kites?”