Henry Ford Quotes
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There is on this continent almost every variety of scene that the wide world can furnish. There are mountains which for majesty and grandeur cannot be equaled in any other country; stately rivers, magnificent lakes, boundless woods, mighty waterfalls. In spite of improved highways and cheaper transportation, this vast heritage is not appreciated as it ought to be.
Henry Ford
We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.
Henry Ford
It is not that which we hold in our hands or store away that makes up wealth, it is the faculty of fully appreciating and enjoying those things without which the world would be a vast sterile tract as devoid of beauty as the moon with its oceans of ashes and burnt-out craters, which nothing can redeem.
Henry Ford
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
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[In 1928] People are becoming too intelligent ever to have another big war.
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There is no progress merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.
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There comes a time, when instead of making dead branches less ugly, the ax should be laid at the root of the tree.
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Every time I reduce the charge for our car by one dollar, I get a thousand new buyers.
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Money is not worth a particular amount. As money it is not worth anything, for it will do nothing for itself.
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The plan at that time most in favor was to start off with the largest possible capitalization and then sell all the stock and all the bonds that could be sold. Whatever money happened to be left over after all the stock and bond-selling expenses and promoters, charges and all that, went grudgingly into the foundation of the business.
The kind of mind that does not like repetitive work does not have to stay in it.
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Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
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Exercise is bunk.
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Even when I was young I suspected that much might be done in a better way.
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it.
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Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible.
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History is more or less bunk.
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We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
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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.
Henry Ford
Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
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Success is… a matter of adjusting one’s efforts to obstacles and one’s abilities to a service needed by others… most people think of it in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
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A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is.
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The moment one gets into the ‘expert’ state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
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Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
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If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don’t need it, if you are sick you shouldn’t take it.
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What do we care what they did five hundred or one thousand years ago?
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We don’t want tradition.
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An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit.
Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
[On why he went into the car business] Everybody wants to be someplace he ain’t. As soon as he gets there, he wants to go right back.
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What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
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These really are good times, but only a few know it.
Henry Ford
Commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.
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[In 1929] The country couldn’t run without prohibition. That is the industrial fact.
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[In 1928] People are becoming too intelligent ever to have another big war. Statesmen have not anything like the prestige they had years ago, and what is educating the ordinary people against war is that they are mixing too much. The motor-car, radio and such things are the great ‘mixers.’… I believe the last war was too much an educator for there ever to be another on a large scale.
Henry Ford
I believe the last war was too much an educator for there ever to be another on a large scale.
Henry Ford
I’ve already made the decision.
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