Henry Ford Quotes

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

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.

In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has looked. Phase One is really the Ford story. Function and production were the most important considerations. The automobile was an invention, and it looked like one.

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

What was worked out at Ford was the practice of moving the work from one worker to another until it became a complete unit, then arranging the flow of these units at the right time and the right place to a moving final assembly line from which came a finished product.

When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing freedom of mobility to people around the world.

We've always loved the automobile, and we all love Henry Ford's original vision to open the highways to all mankind, the freedom and movement.

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

We want people to still have choices - Ford cars and trucks, whatever works for their lifestyle.

One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.

But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.

Favorite color to paint my nails is black, always.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: She hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from.

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in joiner's work as is the clearwood of fir, and contains a liquid resin, of the color of Attic honey, which is good for consumptives.

There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.