Henry Ford

"The bankers who do straight banking should regard themselves as naturally the first men to probe and understand our monetary system—instead of being content with the mastery of local banking-house met…"

"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."

"Business will control money instead of money controlling business. The ruinous interest system will be greatly modified. Banking will not be a risk, but a service. Banks will begin to do much more for…"

"So, while the people are indeed supreme over the written Constitution, the spiritual constitution is supreme over them. The French Revolutionists wrote constitutions too—every drunken writer among the…"

"Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our finan…"

"The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it."

"Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry..."

"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."