Henry Ford Quotes - Famous Quotes by Henry Ford
Born: 1863-07-30
Died: 1947-04-07
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
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Any color - so long as it's black. (on Model T paint options)
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
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Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
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Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
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Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
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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 damn is the history we made today.
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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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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.
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I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
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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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It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.
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Reading musses up my mind.
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
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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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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!
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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.
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
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Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
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You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
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