Henry Ford Quote of the Week from Greg Bover


Henry Ford (1863-1947)


The quintessential American industrialist, Ford got his start as an engineer with the Edison Illumination Company, eventually rising to Chief Engineer and beginning to experiment with vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. Ford is credited with the development of assembly line manufacturing and the franchise system which allowed him to produce and sell a car that the middle class could afford. He also believed in paying his employees much higher wages than average so that they could help fuel an upward capitalist spiral. He thought increased international commerce would lead to peace and was only a reluctant supporter of the US war effort, although at its peak his Willow Run plant was building one B-24 bomber every hour. Ford’s reputation as a philanthropist was enhanced by the vast wealth he left to the Ford Foundation, but sullied by his life-long anti-Semitism.

Greg Bover


  • If it wasn’t for Henry Ford we all would be living with a socialist government faster than is taking place,


  • I think the capitalist spiral that Henry Ford originated is out of control now. It’s time to spiral down, bring manufacturing back to the USA and achieve some kind of income equality in this country. The people who work the hardest get paid the least now, it seems. This is not right!




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