Sur les rémunérations

"It was demonstrated in war time that too quickly increasing a man’s pay sometimes increases only his cupidity and therefore decreases his earning power." (p. 128)

"if the salary of a hundred-dollar-a-day man were increased overnight to three hundred dollars a day he would probably make a bigger fool of himself than the working man whose pay is increased from one dollar to three dollars an hour." (p. 128)

Sur la spéculation

"The negation of the industrial idea is the effort to make a profit out of speculation instead of out of work." (p. 140)

Sur les profits

"I regard business profits above a small percentage as belonging more to the business than to the stockholders." (p. 161)

"Profits belong in three places : they belong to the business – to keep it steady, progressive and sound. They belong to the men who helped produce them. And they belong also, in part, to the public. A successful business is profitable to all three of these interests – planner, producer, and purchaser." (p. 164)

Henry Ford, My Life & Work, London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1923, 289 p.

Citations reprises par David Poulin-Litvak : http://www.vigile.net/Un-dangereux-gauchiste