History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. Interview in Chicago Tribune (May 25, 1916).

More from Henry Ford

• An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
• Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success.
• Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
• The customer can have any color he wants so long as it’s black.
• The customer can have any color he wants so long as it's black. Regarding the Ford Model T.
• What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.