Henry Ford

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Henry Ford

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly through artificial means.

Henry Ford

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

Henry Ford

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

Henry Ford

I was happier when I was doing a mechanic’s job.

Henry Ford

I wouldn’t give five cents for all the art in the world.

Henry Ford

I wouldn’t have the Presidency or any political office-don’t want anything to do with it nor have politics have anything to do with me.

Henry Ford

I’d like to devote about three years to the elimination of the cow. There’s not reason in the world why the chemist can’t discover the cow’s secret of converting vegetation into dairy products. And there’s less reason why the chemist can’t do a better job of it after he learns how.

Henry Ford

If people understood how the economic system works, there’d be a revolution in a minute.

Henry Ford

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

Henry Ford