Henry Ford Quotes
320 Henry Ford Quotes
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Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.
Henry Ford
Well conducted business enterprise cannot fail to return a profit, but profit must and inevitably come as a reward for good service.
Henry Ford
Given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea.
Henry Ford
One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.
Henry Ford
My mother always said I was born a mechanic.
Henry Ford
There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things.
Henry Ford
Machines are to a mechanic what books are to the writer.
Henry Ford
[In 1885] I do not recall any one who thought that the internal combustion engine could ever have more than a limited use. All the wise people demonstrated conclusively that the engine could not compete with steam.
Henry Ford
I always am certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough.
Henry Ford
It was a very great thing to have my wife even more confident than I was. She has always been that way.
Henry Ford
Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting.
Henry Ford
[Around 1892] What held me up most was that I had neither the time nor the money to search for the best material for each part.
Henry Ford
The only use of money is to buy tools to work with or the product of tools.
Henry Ford
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
Henry Ford
If a machine does not give service, then it is better for the manufacturer if he never had the introduction, for he will have the worst of all advertisements – a dissatisfied customer.
Henry Ford
If a salesman is paid only for what he sells, it is not to be expected that he is going to exert any great effort on a customer out of whom no more commission is to be made.
Henry Ford
If to petrify is success; all one has to do is to humour the lazy side of the mind; but if to grow is success, then one must wake up anew every morning and keep awake all day.
Henry Ford
I saw great businesses become but the ghost of a name because someone thought they could be managed just as they were always managed…
Henry Ford
Life… is not a location, but a journey.
Henry Ford
Life flows.
Henry Ford
Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change.
Henry Ford
So many men are afraid of being considered fools… The best of it is that such fools usually live long enough to prove that they were not fools – or the work they have begun lives long enough to prove that were not foolish.
Henry Ford
Time spent in fighting competition is wasted; it had better be spent in doing the work.
Henry Ford
There are always enough people ready and anxious to buy, provided you supply what they want and at the proper price…
Henry Ford
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
I do not know, whether the man who works always, who never leaves his business, who is absolutely intent upon getting ahead, and who therefore does get ahead – is happier than the man who keeps office hours, both for his brain and his hands.
Henry Ford
If a man wants leisure and gets it – then he has no cause to complain. But he cannot have both leisure and the results of work.
Henry Ford
Thinking first of money instead of work brings on fear of failure and this fear blocks every avenue of business – it makes a man afraid of competition, of changing his methods, or of doing anything which might change his condition.
Henry Ford
The way is clear for any one who thinks first of service – of doing the work in the best possible way.
Henry Ford
Everybody knows that it is always possible to do a thing better the second time.
Henry Ford
The thought behind most standardization is to be able to make a larger profit.
Henry Ford
The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the [little] money.
Henry Ford
Excess weight kills any self-propelled vehicle.
Henry Ford
Strength has nothing to do with weight.
Henry Ford
The mentality of the man who does things in the world is agile, light and strong. The most beautiful things in the world are those from which all excess weight has been eliminated.
Henry Ford
You can dissect a Ford but you cannot kill it.
Henry Ford
It is my ambition to have every piece of machinery, or other non-consumable product that I turn out, so strong and so well made that no one ought ever to have to buy a second one.
Henry Ford
A good machine of any kind ought to last as long as a good watch.
Henry Ford
Business is not a game.
Henry Ford
We were just as much a pleasure car as any other car on the market, but we gave no attention to purely luxury features.
Henry Ford
When one of my cars breaks down I know I am to blame.
Henry Ford
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