Quotes by
Henry Ford |
1863-1947 , American industrialist, founder of FORD
American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the 20th Century. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He became one of the richest and best-known people in the world.
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Quotations
| • | Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. 9 |
| • | Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re probably right. 9 |
| • | There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. 7 |
| • | My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. 7 |
| • | Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 7 |
| • | The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. 6 |
| • | 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. 5 |
| • | One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do. 5 |
| • | To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success. 5 |
| • | Vision without execution is just hallucination. 5 |
| • | Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. 5 |
| • | Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. 5 |
| • | Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. 5 |
| • | If I had asked them what they had wanted, they would have said a faster horse. 5 |
| • | Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. 4 |
| • | A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 4 |
| • | There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. 4 |
| • | If there is any one secret of success, 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. 4 |
| • | Employers only handle the money; it is the customer who pays the wages. 4 |
| • | Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. 3 |
| • | When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. 3 |
| • | Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. 3 |
| • | You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader. 3 |
| • | A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. 3 |
| • | Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. 3 |
| • | You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. 3 |
| • | Don’t find fault, find a remedy. 3 |
| • | There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. 3 |
