Top 100 Henry Ford Quotes
#1. When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.
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#2. I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.
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#3. You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
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#4. There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
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#6. Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.
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#7. Every success is the mother of countless others.
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#8. Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.
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#9. The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.
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#10. He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.
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#11. The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts
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#12. Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.
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#13. Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service - for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right - then money abundantly takes care of itself.
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#14. If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct ... It's the thinking that makes it so.
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#15. Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.
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#16. Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.
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#17. There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.
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#18. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
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#19. The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.
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#20. Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
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#21. In March, 1902, I resigned, determined never again to put myself under orders. The Detroit Automobile Company later became the Cadillac Company under the ownership of the Lelands, who
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#22. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.
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#23. Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.
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#24. You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
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#26. The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.
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#27. I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
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#28. You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.
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#29. An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.
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#30. Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.
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#31. Thinking is the hardest work we do.
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#32. Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
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#33. Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself
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#34. The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.
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#35. Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming..
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#36. One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.
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#37. Speculation into thing already produced that is not business
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#38. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.
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#39. Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.
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#40. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.
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#41. We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.
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#42. Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.
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#43. Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity - not simply for ourselves but for others - the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.
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#44. Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.
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#45. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
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#46. As we serve our jobs we serve the world.
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#47. Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
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#48. You can have any color you want, as long as it's black
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#49. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
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#50. You can get it in any color, as long as it is black
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#51. We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.
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#52. We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.
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#53. If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability
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#54. There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.
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#55. All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.
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#56. It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
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#57. If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten
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#58. We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
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#59. Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.
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#60. There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.
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#61. Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.
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#62. It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.
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#63. It is probably true that the commonest real cause of anti-semitism is the action of the international Jew who is often unknown and always secure, but innocent victim of it is the poor Jew.
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#64. The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.
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#65. The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.
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#66. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
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#67. Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.
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#68. The most important history is the history we make today.
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#69. You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over.
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#70. The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
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#71. An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.
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#72. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
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#73. The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
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#74. Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled - he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.
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#75. That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
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#76. Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.
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#77. For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.
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#78. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
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#79. If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.
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#80. When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.
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#81. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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#82. As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow
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#83. The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.
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#84. The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.
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#85. The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.
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#86. Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking
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#87. An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
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#88. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
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#89. Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
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#90. Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.
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#91. Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
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#92. Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
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#93. These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.
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#94. Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.
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#95. A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.
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#96. If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.
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#97. If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.
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#98. Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.
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#99. Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
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#100. Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.
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