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"There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage."
"I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed."
"I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job."
"Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?"
"I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine."
"The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind."
"One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it."
"In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales."
"The most important history is the history we make today."
"As we serve our jobs we serve the world."
"Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them."
"The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them."
"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 if people would do it."
"Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living."
"Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount."
"A nation that knows how to work will never suffer."
"Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it."
"Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others."
"I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service."
"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."