Quotes About Henry Ford

#1. I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

Lee Iacocca

#2. Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Henry Ford

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

Henry Ford

#4. 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

#5. Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Henry Ford

#6. When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

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#7. I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

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. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Henry Ford

#10. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

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

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#12. 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

#13. He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

Henry Ford

#14. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

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#15. 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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#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

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#19. I'll sleep well tonight

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#20. You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Henry Ford

#21. Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

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#22. Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

Henry Ford

#23. Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

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#24. America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

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#25. Every experience is worth having.

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#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

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#29. 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

#30. Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information.

Henry Ford

#31. 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

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

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#33. Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

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#34. Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

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#35. given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.

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#36. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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#37. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

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#38. Every success is the mother of countless others.

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#39. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

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

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#41. 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

#42. Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Henry Ford

#43. In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Henry Ford

#44. Too many men are afraid of being fools.

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#45. What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

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#46. 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

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

Henry Ford

#48. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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#49. The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

Milton Friedman

#50. 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.

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#51. Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.

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#52. 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

#53. Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

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#54. The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

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#55. If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

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#56. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

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#58. History's just one darn thing after another.

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#59. I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

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#60. 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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#61. There's no such thing as no chance.

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#62. A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

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#63. The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts

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

Henry Ford

#65. Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

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#66. My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

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

Ashlee Vance

#68. 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.

Henry Ford

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

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#70. Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

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#71. True education is gained through the discipline of life. There

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#72. 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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#73. Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

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

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#75. Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

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#76. Change is not always progress ... A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.

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

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#78. Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

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#79. Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.

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

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#81. There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

Henry Ford

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

Adam Osborne

#83. The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

Henry Ford

#84. One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

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#85. The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

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#86. Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.

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#87. When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ...

Henry Ford

#88. Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

Henry Rollins

#89. 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

#90. 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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#91. Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

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#92. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

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#93. The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

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#94. 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

#95. There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

#96. The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

Henry Ford

#97. 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

#98. Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Henry Ford

#99. 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

#100. Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Henry Ford