Henry Ford

An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

Henry Ford

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Henry Ford

Anything that is not right, whether it temporarily favors the employees or the employers, cannot last-because it is not right.

Henry Ford

As far as competition is concerned, that must continue. But we must learn what competition really is. It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

Henry Ford

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

Henry Ford

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

Henry Ford

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

Henry Ford

Asking ‘who ought to be the boss’ is like asking ‘who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Henry Ford

Because a thing is useful is no reason why it should be ugly.

Henry Ford

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Henry Ford