John Francis Dodge Quotes

102 John Francis Dodge Quotes

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[To Adolph Vocelle watchman who did not have the keys to lock the doors to the office buildings or the front gate to the plant] Anyone could have come in the place and ransacked it from top to bottom.
John Francis Dodge

[To a local restaurant operator in July 1912 for their 200 forge workers] We wish you would submit us a price on 200 sandwiches and 200 bottles of beer to be delivered every working day, ice cold, to our Forge Plant about 9:30am during the months of July & August.
John Francis Dodge

[On seventeen Dodge workers sitting in a saloon opposite the Dodge Factory during working hours] How many of you men belong at work? [No one replied.] I’ll buy a round [of drinks] for the house and when it’s gone, you men who ought to be working better get back. [They all scampered back to work.]
John Francis Dodge

Once each week we were dressed like little gentlemen for Sunday school.
John Francis Dodge

[To Henry Ford in July 1913 formally ending their relationship] The Dodge Brothers, America’s premier builder of automobile engines and components, confirmed plans that they would build a new automobile bearing the Dodge Brothers’ marque.
John Francis Dodge

Dodge Brothers. Dodge Brothers. Motor Car Dodge Brothers. Motor Car. Reliable, Dependable, Sound.
John Francis Dodge

[August 1914] Dodge Brothers, Detroit, who have manufactured the vital parts for more than 500,000 motor cars, will this fall market a car bearing our own name.
John Francis Dodge

I reached Detroit with 50 cents, but I spent 25 cents to have an aching tooth pulled out.
John Francis Dodge

[On explaining his decision to go into car production, producing the first car on November 14, 1914] Just think of all those Ford owners who will someday want an automobile.
John Francis Dodge

[In October 1917 on being told a recoil firing mechanism wasn’t suited for mass production] The h*ll it isn’t.
John Francis Dodge

[In October 1917 on being told ‘I am not accustomed to being spoken to in that kind of language.’] The war would be a h*ll of a lot better off if you were. Do you want this job or don’t you?
John Francis Dodge

[On what the government actually required for war work] If you will take the materials that you actually need, that you can use, not taking stuff and storing it up that wouldn’t be shipped in five years… and let us alone, we believe there will be plenty to keep us going.
John Francis Dodge

[On him and his brother in Niles] The most destitute kids in town… I drove a cow three miles twice a day for 50 cents a week and was mighty glad when pay day came.
John Francis Dodge

When I left Niles I was earning $1.25 a day in the old Krick factory. The young fellows of today don’t know anything about adversity.
John Francis Dodge

We had a rather foolish contract or we would have compelled them [Ford Motor Company] to pay over much more. We were not as wise then as we, perhaps should have been.
John Francis Dodge

We would have compelled them to pay over much more.
John Francis Dodge

We were not as wise then as we, perhaps should have been…
John Francis Dodge

Just think of all the Ford owners who would like to own an automobile.
John Francis Dodge

Dodge Brothers of Detroit.
John Francis Dodge

No shoes even in early winter…
John Francis Dodge

When I left Niles I was earning $1.25 a day…
John Francis Dodge

The young fellows of today…
John Francis Dodge

BONUS:

Horace Elgin Dodge Quotes and other Dodge Quotes

[On Kahn the architect not supervising Malow Brothers, the contractor in building his home] I must say that I am thoroughly disgusted with them. They seem to think that it makes no difference with them whether they finish the work this year or next so long as they get it done.
Horace Elgin Dodge

[In 1906 on applying unsuccessfully for membership in the prestigious Gross Pointe Country Club and then due to being angry and humiliated buying a large tract of land next to the club and vowing to build an extravagant home that would make the Country Club] Look like a shanty. [Mansion named ‘Rose Terrace’ also had an enormous boathouse and docks for Horace’s yachts and speedboats.]
Horace Elgin Dodge

[On his fifth wife (Gregg) Sherwood Dodge when he filed for divorce in 1961] I can’t afford the woman. [Alleging in 1961 that Sherwood Dodge spent $300,000 in one year on jewelry, clothes, and luxuries including two-carat diaper pins for their baby boy.]
Horace Dodge Jr

[The grandson of John Francis Dodge] I loved my father, who died when I was 10. He taught me wisdom. My stepfather Denny… taught me patience. He was terrific and I loved him too. My mother was always there.
John Francis Dodge III

[Frederick Haynes - The man who took over as president of Dodge Brothers on January 1921 after Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge had passed away in 1920] I don’t say that a man’s whole life should consist of business and nothing but business but I do say and I do know that the man who puts his job first is the man who gives the orders in the end.
Frederick Haynes

[In June 1928] Buying the Dodge [Brothers] was one of the soundest acts of my life. I say sincerely that nothing we have done for the organization compares with that transaction. We had, before the merger, an intensely sharp spearhead in the Chrysler Corporation, but when we put behind it all of Dodge our spearhead had a weighty shaft and had become a potent thing.
Walter Chrysler

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