Henry Ford Quotes

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.

The Depression has caused an emergency more serious than war.

I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool's paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future

In the neo-liberal fantasy of individualism. everyone was supposed to be an entrepreneur, retraining or repackaging himself or herself in a synamic economy economy, perpetually alert to the latter's technological revolutions.

I don't believe in legacy. I feel that the 'mega' tag definitely acts as a platform, but after that, it's all on the individual. Legacy does not mean a crown that is passed on; we have to create our own paths.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

I'm not a trust-fund child. I think my father's got a healthy work ethic, and therefore, I think it just came with the part. You've got to look after yourself.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.