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Henry Ford Quotes |
Henry Ford Biography
- Full Name : Henry Ford
- Born : July 30, 1863 (Springwells Township, Michigan, U.S.)
- Dead : April 7, 1947 (Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.)
- Nationality : American
- Profession : Engineer, Businessman and President of Ford Motor Company.
- Spouse : Clara Jane Bryant
- Children : Edsel Ford
- Parents : William Ford and Mary Ford
Facts About Henry Ford :
- Henry Ford was the richest man in America after John D. Rockefeller, with a fortune of $200 billion
- Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were friends.
- Henry Ford opposed America's entry into World War.
- Henry Ford had more than 150 patents.
- Henry Ford hated smoking, and wrote a book on the harms of smoking.
Best Henry Ford Quotes
1. “ Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. ”
— Henry Ford
2. “ If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ”
— Henry Ford
3. “ Don’t find fault, find a remedy. ”
— Henry Ford
4. “ Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. ”
— Henry Ford
5. “ Vision without execution is just hallucination. ”
— Henry Ford
6. “ Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ”
— Henry Ford
7. “ The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. ”
— Henry Ford
8. “ Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right. ”
— Henry Ford
9. “ 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. ”
— Henry Ford
10. “ It is observed that successful people get ahead in the time that other people waste. ”
— Henry Ford
11. “ Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ”
— Henry Ford
12. “ Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it. ”
— Henry Ford
13. “ I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ”
— Henry Ford
14. “ The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. ”
— Henry Ford
15. “ A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ”
— Henry Ford
16. “ I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ”
— Henry Ford
17. “ Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ”
— Henry Ford
18. “ Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ”
— Henry Ford
19. “ My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ”
— Henry Ford
20. “ To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. ”
— Henry Ford
21. “ You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year. ”
— Henry Ford
22. “ Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. ”
— Henry Ford
23. “ You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. ”
— Henry Ford
24. “ Obstacles are those frightful things that you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ”
— Henry Ford
25. “ Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. ”
— Henry Ford
26. “ An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. ”
— Henry Ford
27. “ The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ”
— Henry Ford
28. “ Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ”
— Henry Ford
29. “ 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. ”
— Henry Ford
30. “ A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. ”
— Henry Ford
31. “ The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. ”
— Henry Ford
32. “ The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ”
— Henry Ford
33. “ There is only one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. ”
— Henry Ford
34. “ Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. ”
— Henry Ford
35. “ Experience is the thing of supreme value. ”
— Henry Ford
36. “ Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. ”
— Henry Ford
37. “ 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
38. “ 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
39. “ Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. ”
— Henry Ford
40. “ 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. ”
— Henry Ford
41. “ 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 make today. ”
— Henry Ford
42. “ Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages. ”
— Henry Ford
43. “ 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. ”
— Henry Ford
44. “ When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ”
— Henry Ford
45. “ When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ”
— Henry Ford
46. “ Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ”
— Henry Ford
47. “ History is more or less bunk. ”
— Henry Ford
48. “ Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. ”
— Henry Ford
49. “ 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
50. “ If you had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. ”
— Henry Ford
51. “ 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
52. “ That the devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness. ”
— Henry Ford