Top 100 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. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Musk's vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With
Ashlee Vance
#8. I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
Adam Osborne
#9. 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
#10. We've been told that Henry Ford never fired employees but shifted them around until he found the niche that was right for them. A
Peg Dawson
#11. The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.
Eric Ries
#12. 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
#13. Henry Ford didn't just create a cheap way of getting away from your in-laws; he basically understood that there was something in us as a culture that wanted to be on the move, that wanted to get out.
Richard Rodriguez
#14. When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing freedom of mobility to people around the world.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
Peter Drucker
#18. 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
#19. As Henry Ford said, "Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#20. Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.
John Sweeney
#21. 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
#22. Henry Ford, who despite his immense wealth never owned a Cadillac. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#23. One of Henry Ford's most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely, and changing them slowly.
Napoleon Hill
#24. 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
#25. Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.
Robert Kuttner
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end.
So what is there to worry about?
Dale Carnegie
#29. Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.
Tim Walberg
#30. If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Anonymous
#31. Henry Ford is quoted as saying. "History is more or less bunk." Now, if he never spoke those words, doesn't that just prove he was right when he didn't say them?
Alex Bosworth
#32. Henry Ford summed it up best. "If I had asked people what they wanted," he said, "they would have said a faster horse." This is the genius of great leadership. Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can't see.
Simon Sinek
#33. Those who believe they can and those who believe they can't are both right. - Henry Ford
Dan Millman
#34. Until Henry Ford saw the chance to get free publicity (making Sub-chasers) he thought submarines were something to eat.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#35. Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.
Walter Mosley
#36. A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
Will Rogers
#37. Whenever you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)
Rhonda Byrne
#38. I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
Will Rogers
#39. Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.
Sean Patrick
#40. 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
#41. Henry Ford had the additional distinction of being the only American mentioned favorably in Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's memoir of 1925.
Bill Bryson
#42. Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!
Walter Isaacson
#43. Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
Henry Ford
#44. We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
Henry Ford
#45. 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
#46. Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.
Henry Ford
#47. When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.
Henry Ford
#48. I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.
Henry Ford
#49. 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
#50. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Henry Ford
#51. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
#52. Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The
Henry Ford
#53. 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
#54. He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.
Henry Ford
#55. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford
#56. 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
Henry Ford
#57. 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
#58. If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.
Henry Ford
#60. 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
#61. Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.
Henry Ford
#62. Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.
Henry Ford
#63. Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
Henry Ford
#64. America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.
Henry Ford
#66. 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
#67. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.
Henry Ford
#68. Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information.
Henry Ford
#69. 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
#70. The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.
Henry Ford
#71. Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Henry Ford
#72. Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.
Henry Ford
#73. 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.
Henry Ford
#74. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
#75. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
#76. Every success is the mother of countless others.
Henry Ford
#77. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Henry Ford
#78. Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.
Henry Ford
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Too many men are afraid of being fools.
Henry Ford
#82. What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
Henry Ford
#83. 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
#84. A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.
Henry Ford
#85. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
#86. 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
#87. Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.
Henry Ford
#88. 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
#89. Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.
Henry Ford
#90. The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.
Henry Ford
#91. If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.
Henry Ford
#92. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford
#93. He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.
Henry Ford
#94. History's just one darn thing after another.
Henry Ford
#95. 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.
Henry Ford
#96. The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Henry Ford
#97. There's no such thing as no chance.
Henry Ford
#98. A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.
Henry Ford
#99. The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts
Henry Ford
#100. The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.
Henry Ford
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