Henry Ford famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
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Those who walk with God, always reach their destination.
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
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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.
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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
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Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
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The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.
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A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
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This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.
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An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
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Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose
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A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
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Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.
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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.
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The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.
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Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.
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Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.
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Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.
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The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.
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If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
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Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.
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Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience
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If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.
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There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.
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Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
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When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
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To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.
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The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.
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If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.
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Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
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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.
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Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
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I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
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If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.
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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.
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.
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The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.
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The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.
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A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
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I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience.
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Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best
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Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
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You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.
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If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.
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The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.
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The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.
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Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
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Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
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It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.
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A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
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You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
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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.
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The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
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The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
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You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
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Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.
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Every success is the mother of countless others.
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Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.
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People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.
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Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself
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The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
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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.
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Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
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Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.
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An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.
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Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.
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Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.
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Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.
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To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.
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We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.
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If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
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It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.
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