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Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel -- only a means to an end.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
Too many men are afraid of being fools.
HENRY FORD, "In Bondage to a Reputation," Ford Ideals
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
Do your best every time ... because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD, quoted in Elizabeth Dole's Hearts Touched With Fire
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
History is more or less bunk.
HENRY FORD, Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1916
The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
HENRY FORD, Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1916
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
Political parties are like poets, born, not made.
HENRY FORD, "Parties Are Born, Not Made," Ford Ideals
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
HENRY FORD, remarks in court, July 1919
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
HENRY FORD, The Theosophical Path magazine, Nov. 1927
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.
HENRY FORD, "Party Politics," Ford Ideals
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
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.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.
HENRY FORD, introduction, My Life and Work
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
HENRY FORD, introduction, My Life and Work
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD, attributed, International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.
HENRY FORD, introduction, My Life and Work
Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.
HENRY FORD, introduction, My Life and Work
When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.
HENRY FORD, introduction, My Life and Work
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