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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.

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

— Henry Ford

Wisdom

All Quotes by Henry Ford

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

— Henry Ford

Time

“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

“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”

— Henry Ford

Happiness

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

— Henry Ford

Good

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

— Henry Ford

Motivational

“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”

— Henry Ford

Leadership

“History is more or less bunk.”

— Henry Ford

History

“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”

— Henry Ford

Life

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

— Henry Ford

Business

“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

“Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.”

— Henry Ford

Success

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”

— Henry Ford

Happiness

“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

“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.”

— Henry Ford

Best

“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”

— Henry Ford

Money

“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

“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

Business

“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

“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

“Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.”

— Henry Ford

Business