Henry Ford Quotes

The government relying on it would be disappointed, and ruin soon stare them in the face.

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

I feel like I went through the Great Depression. All these companies are being successful around you, you're on that track, and then the market collapses, and you're out of a job. You're trying to save your investors' investment, and it doesn't work, and you sell the company for nothing. It was brutal.

Our time has experienced greater technological progress than ever existed before, and yet we are faced with the fact that world-wide poverty, hunger, death of children, unemployment, misery and the destruction of nature have not abated but rather to some extent increased. Many peoples are threatened with economic ruin, social disarray, political marginalization and national collapse.

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

Two months ago we were facing serious problems. The country was dying by inches. It was dying because trade and commerce had declined to dangerously low levels; prices for basic commodities were such as to destroy the value of the assets of national institutions such as banks, savings banks, insurance companies, and others. These institutions, because of their great needs, were foreclosing mortgages, calling loans, refusing credit. Thus there was actually in process of destruction the property of millions of people.

We see - every week or two, we see another story of a small business that went out of business because Donald Trump.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.

I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care.

Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those.

You're out of business!

The upward economic movement in America has undoubtedly reached its end – the crisis has come.

Hideous bankruptcy is here ... yet you deliberate .... Is it so magnanimous ... to give a portion of one's revenue to save all of one's possessions?

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

The Panic of 1893 was a dismal time of radiating destruction …. It was good for the bears …. the wild joy of men who shorted stocks and rejoiced in the ruin…

Think back to the time when Agriculture was not labor efficient. We have lost all these jobs. But I don't think anyone is too sad about it.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.