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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.

“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

All Quotes by Henry Ford

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

— Henry Ford

Success

“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

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

— Henry Ford

Happiness

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

— Henry Ford

Success

“Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.”

— Henry Ford

Money

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”

— Henry Ford

Time

“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

“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

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

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

— Henry Ford

Wisdom

“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

“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”

— Henry Ford

Leadership

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

— Henry Ford

Good

“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