Henry Ford Quotes

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.Ford married Clara Jane Bryant (1866–1950) on April 11, 1888 and supported himself by farming and running a sawmill. They had one child: Edsel Ford (1893–1943) His father gave him a pocket watch in his early teens. At 15, Ford dismantled and reassembled the timepieces of friends and neighbors dozens of times, gaining the reputation of a watch repairman.[5] At twenty, Ford walked four miles to their Episcopal church every Sunday.


Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
   
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

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.
   
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
   
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
   
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
   
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.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
   
You will find men who want  to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
   
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.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.


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