Henry Ford Giving Quotations

The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.

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

For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No, I have no desire to know what, or who I was once; or what, or who, I shall be in the ages to come. This belief in immortality makes present living the more attractive. It gives you all the time there is. You will always be able to finish what you start. There is no fever or strain in such an outlook. We are here in life for one purpose: to get experience. We are all getting it, and we shall all use it somewhere.

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

It is easy to give alms; it is better to work to make the giving of alms unnecessary

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.