evidence: Since I’ve just had to have this conversation again… "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." [...] Not that the line makes sense in any case. Because "faster" wasn’t the selling point of cars over horses. Speed wasn’t the problem. Spending huge amounts of money, time, and space on keeping horses alive and dealing with the literal horse shit was the problem. [...] TL;DR: Henry Ford did not say "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". He pretty much said the exact opposite.