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
| • | Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re probably right. 8 |
| • | Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. 8 |
| • | Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 6 |
| • | My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. 6 |
| • | There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. 6 |
| • | The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. 5 |
| • | If I had asked them what they had wanted, they would have said a faster horse. 4 |
| • | Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. 4 |
| • | Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. 4 |
| • | Vision without execution is just hallucination. 4 |
| • | To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | Employers only handle the money; it is the customer who pays the wages. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. 3 |
| • | A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 3 |
| • | Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. 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. 2 |
| • | Don’t find fault, find a remedy. 2 |
| • | Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. 2 |
| • | You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. 2 |
| • | Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. 2 |
| • | A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. 2 |
| • | You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader. 2 |
| • | Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. 2 |
| • | When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. 2 |
| • | Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. 2 |
