Henry Ford And Quotes

#1. Musk's vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With

Ashlee Vance

#2. I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Adam Osborne

#3. Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.

Timothy Noah

#4. He was Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller on steroids. Sure, he was stuck up just like any rich snob was, but only to those whom he thought of as a threat to him.

Justin Bienvenue

#5. The rear door was black, the driver's side door was red, and the hood was sunshine-yellow. If Henry Ford and Picasso had gone out on a bender, that car was what the hangover would have looked like.

Kathleen O'Reilly

#6. We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Henry Ford

#7. 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 dam is the history we made today.

Henry Ford

#8. 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.

Henry Ford

#9. Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The

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#10. 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.

Henry Ford

#11. That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It

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#12. Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.

Flann O'Brien

#13. Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

Henry Ford

#14. Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

Edward Abbey

#15. 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.

Henry Ford

#16. Marx made theory ... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization ... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

Diego Rivera

#17. I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience.

Henry Ford

#18. The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

Henry Ford

#19. Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

Henry Ford

#20. Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.

Marcus Garvey

#21. There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Henry Ford

#22. A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Henry Ford

#23. How soon will Ford blow up? Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.

Henry Ford

#24. 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.

Henry Ford

#25. He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.

Henry Ford

#26. The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

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#27. The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Henry Ford

#28. I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Henry Ford

#29. To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

Henry Ford

#30. There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

Henry Ford

#31. A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Henry Ford

#32. The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

Henry Ford

#33. Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, can accomplish.

Napoleon Hill

#34. 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.

Henry Ford

#35. Henry looked up and down the empty avenue - no cars or trucks anywhere. No bicycles. No paperboys. No fruit sellers or fish buyers. No flower carts or noodle stands. The streets were vacant, empty - the way he felt inside. There was no one left.

Jamie Ford

#36. Like so many things Henry had wanted in life
like his father, his marriage, his life
it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.

Jamie Ford

#37. 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.

Henry Ford

#38. Jews have always controlled the business ... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada ... is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

Henry Ford

#39. What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Henry Ford II

#40. The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

Henry Ford

#41. You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Henry Ford

#42. Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

Henry Ford

#43. build the brand that you want and not the one others have in mind for you. As Henry Ford said, 'If I'd asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse.

Niall Harbison

#44. Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

Henry Ford

#45. Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

Henry Ford

#46. People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

Henry Ford

#47. The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

Henry Ford

#48. Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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#49. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Henry Ford

#50. What his son, Marty, never fully understood was that deep down there was an Ethel-shaped hole in Henry's life, and without her, all he felt was the draft of loneliness, cold and sharp, the years slipping away like blood from a wound that never heals.

Jamie Ford

#51. We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

Henry Ford

#52. It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

Henry Ford

#53. Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

Henry Ford

#54. The waitress brought a fresh pot of tea, and Marty refilled his father's cup and poured a cup for Samantha. Henry in turn filled Marty's. It was a tradition Henry cherished - never filling your own cup, always filling that of someone else, who would return the favor.

Jamie Ford

#55. Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming..

Henry Ford

#56. You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

Henry Ford

#57. Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

Henry Ford

#58. Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

Larry McMurtry

#59. The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

Henry Ford

#60. Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.

Jamie Ford

#61. Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.

Henry Ford

#62. When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Elon Musk

#63. 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.

Henry Ford

#64. Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Henry Ford

#65. 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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#66. If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

#67. No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

Henry Ford

#68. 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.

Henry Ford

#69. At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.

Henry Ford

#70. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about? ~ Henry Ford

Karen Moore

#71. Profits are the ultimate measure of how efficiently we provide customers with the best products for their needs. Profits are required to survive and grow.

Henry Ford II

#72. One of Henry Ford's most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely, and changing them slowly.

Napoleon Hill

#73. In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

Henry A. Kissinger

#74. The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

Henry Ford

#75. So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel, a place between worlds when he was a child, a place between times now that he was a grown man.

Jamie Ford

#76. The natural thing to do is to work - to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

Henry Ford

#77. 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.

Henry Ford

#78. The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

Henry Ford

#79. 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

Henry Ford

#80. 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.

Henry Ford

#81. All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Henry Ford

#82. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Henry Ford

#83. There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!

Henry Ford

#84. Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?

Henry Ford

#85. Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

Henry Ford

#86. No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

Henry Ford

#87. We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Henry Ford

#88. There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

Henry Ford

#89. If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!

Meher Baba

#90. The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

Henry Ford

#91. People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

Henry Ford

#92. 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.

Henry Ford

#93. History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Henry Ford

#94. Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Henry Ford

#95. I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

Henry Ford

#96. Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

Robert Hormats

#97. Understand the difference between being at work and working.

Henry Ford

#98. The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Henry Ford

#99. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Henry Ford

#100. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

Henry Ford