Henry Ford

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

Henry Ford

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Henry Ford

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it.

Henry Ford

An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

Henry Ford

Come ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest-home!

Henry Ford

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Henry Ford

History’s just one darn thing after another.

Henry Ford

I didn’t get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

Henry Ford

I’ll sleep well tonight.

Henry Ford

If it is ‘anti-Semitism’ to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish.

Henry Ford