The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity. Henry Ford More Quotes by Henry Ford More Quotes From Henry Ford Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end. Henry Ford winningclasstwo To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition Henry Ford steelambitionblood I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. Henry Ford personalitybeautifulcharacter 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 abhorrentmindcivilization Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls. Henry Ford missingopportunitypeople Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. Henry Ford healthysickexercise Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking Henry Ford furnishingshouseholdclothings The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor. Henry Ford leadershipmenfunny The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action. Henry Ford intellectualspiritualmen New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is. Henry Ford new-yorkcountrythinking Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less. Henry Ford fifteenchildrenpeople Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount. Henry Ford amountqualitymatter If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work. Henry Ford unemploymentwantamerica Sometimes you just don't like somebody Henry Ford sometimes In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales. Henry Ford ford-motorcompanybusiness The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody. Henry Ford employerslinesway Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business. Henry Ford challengesbrain Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it. Henry Ford hard-workpeoplethinking I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad. Henry Ford bunkneeds Working together is success. Henry Ford working-togethertogether
