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Henry Ford

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Henry Ford (1863–1947) was an American industrialist and founder of Ford Motor Company. His development of the assembly line technique of mass production revolutionized manufacturing worldwide. Ford's vision of making automobiles affordable for the average American transformed not just the auto industry but the entire fabric of modern life.

“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

Business

All Quotes by Henry Ford

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

— Henry Ford

Business

“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.”

— Henry Ford

Good

“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

— Henry Ford

Experience

“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”

— Henry Ford

Men

“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.”

— Henry Ford

Men

“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

Best

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

— Henry Ford

Time

“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

Experience

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

— Henry Ford

Work

“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.”

— Henry Ford

Learning

“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

Business

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

— Henry Ford

Motivational

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

— Henry Ford

Leadership

“Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.”

— Henry Ford

Business

“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.”

— Henry Ford

Men

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”

— Henry Ford

Best

“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.”

— Henry Ford

Success

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

— Henry Ford

Finance

“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

Great

“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

History