John Deere Quotes
102 John Deere Quotes (102 John Deere and Charles Deere Quotes) (Deere & Company)
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It is a source of consolation to me to know that I never willfully wronged any man and that I never put on the market a poorly-made implement.
John Deere
Strike while the iron is hot.
John Deere
[In 1837 on making his first steel plow] She’s finished.
John Deere
A plow that scours.
John Deere
[In 1868] Almost every year, in our long experience, we have discovered and applied some new feature to our Plows, enhancing their value.
John Deere
[On customer satisfaction] They haven't got to take what we make…
John Deere
[On hearing farmers complaining that they spent more time knocking the soil off a plow then actually ploughing] These prairies will never be farmed till we have a plow that scours.
John Deere
[When asked about his first plow before it was tested.] I wouldn’t want to make a sure promise before I knew I could perform.
John Deere
I cut the teeth off the mill-saw with a hand-chisel. I cut a pattern out of paper for the moldboard and share. I laid the pattern on the saw and cut out around it with a hand chisel, with the help of a striker and a sledge. I then laid the piece on the fire of the forge and heated it, a little at a time, shaping it as best I could with the hand hammer. After making the upright standards out of bar iron, I was ready for the wood parts. I went out to the timber, dug up a sapling, and used the crooks of the roots for handles. I shape the beat out of a stick of timber with an axe and a drawing-knife. In this fashion, I succeeded in constructing a very rough plow.
John Deere
I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me.
John Deere
[On hitching up his first plow. ‘Want me to take her?’ – Lewis Crandall] I will, you drive.
John Deere
I’m making you a present of this plow, Lewis [Crandall], for loaning the use of your land and the horse. But I’d like well to take it back with me to the shop for a few days. I doubt not I’ll build another, and I will wish to study this. Maybe ways of improving it will occur to me.
John Deere
[On a Bloomingville farmer saying ‘Self-polisher be damned! There never was a plow that will sour in this prairie soil.’] Stranger, where do you live? [‘Up Bloomingville way’] Will you take one of these plows home with you, and try it? And if it does not scour, will you let me know? I will send for it, and get it without any cost to you. [‘Aye? And if it does scour?’] I ask $10 for it.
John Deere
[In an advertisement on April 1, 1852 – I am] Prepared to furnish plows to all who may see fit to favor him with their orders – on reasonable notice, and at rates to suit the times.
John Deere
[On his factory] With the facilities for manufacturing which are had at this place, I can increase from 4,000 (the number now manufactured) to 10,000 yearly, if necessary.
John Deere
[In 1852] Always on hand and for sale, wholesale or retail, every variety of one and two horse Plows; all sizes of Breakers. Also a superior article of Seed Drill.
John Deere
I never willfully wronged any man…
John Deere
I never put on the market a poorly-made implement.
John Deere
[On an employee who originally rented a house for him but then bought a house on a very small down-payment] Have you got that house paid for yet, Dick? Dick, if you do need any help on that house, don’t fail to let me know.
John Deere
[On an early partnership agreement with Major Andrus in 1843] That the said Deere and Andrus have agreed and by these presents do agree to become copartners together in the art and trade of blacksmithing, plough-making and all things thereto belonging at the said Grand Detour, and all other business that the said parties may hereafter deem necessary for their mutual interest and benefit… That said Deere on his part further agrees that he will furnish the shop and out-buildings belonging thereto lately occupied by none than said Deere as a Blacksmith shop…
John Deere
[On a partnership with Major Leonard Andrus on March the 20th, 1843. When Andrus furnished cash capital and Deere furnished.] What stock he has now on hand and other materials at a fair valuation and also a sufficient amount of cash capital to make up the same amount… as furnished by the said Andrus.
John Deere
[On badly needing a loan one day of $200 most likely to stave off an insistent creditor.] [‘Do you know that Swede tailor in Moline? Johnson, his name is.’ – Merchant in Rock Island] Yes. Has he got $200? [‘No; but he has a friend just arrived from Sweden. I borrowed $2,000 from the friend. I think he has some more…’ – Merchant in Rock Island]
John Deere
[Rushing back to his factory and telling John Gould one of his then partners.] Tailor Johnson, has an acquaintance who has some money. Hunt him up as quick as you can and see what you can do. [John Gould found him and negotiated the loan. $200 in gold, for a year, at 10 percent interest!]
John Deere
The singing plow.
John Deere
I built 10 plows in 1839, 75 in 1841, and 100 in 1842.
John Deere
[On a partnership with Leonard Andrus in 1843.] Co-partners in the art and trade of blacksmithing, plow-making and all things thereto…
John Deere
[On his improved cast steel clipper plow] We challenge the world to make a better one!
John Deere
[On the part of John Deere that he focused on] About the works.
John Deere
[The last words of his father William Deere to John Deere.] ‘Take good care of your mother.’
John Deere
[On John Deere products] Leaders ‘look good’ to dealers.
John Deere
[On the John Deere Hawkeye Corn Cultivator] The best wheel corn cultivator in use. Not in our opinion only, but in the estimation of all who have used it. The only cultivator that will operate on hill sides. So constructed as to conform to uneven surfaces. Cannot be injured by coming in contact with hidden obstructions. Will not clog in foul land. Turns over the soil to or from the corn. Governed entirely by the feet. Has a side motion sufficient to plow the crookedest rows. In moving side ways all of the shovels maintain the same relative position to each other, thus leaving no balks. Has an advantage over all other Cultivators in the height of axles. Of superior strength, workmanship and finish, easy draught and all downward pressure on the horses’ necks being obviated. We send it forth, feeling confident it will ‘Hoe on its own now’, in such a manner as to bring no discredit on the manufacturers of the ‘Moline Plow.’ (John Deere Plow).
John Deere
[On the John Deere Hawkeye Corn Cultivator] Send for circulars or procure them of Agents in every considerable town in the West.
John Deere
[On values] Quality, integrity and commitment.
John Deere
They haven't got to take what we make and somebody else will beat us, and we will lose our trade.
John Deere
To create an exceptional and sustained experience of genuine value for customers, employees and shareholders - a performance that endures.
John Deere
I knew I could perform.
John Deere
I cut the teeth off the mill-saw with a hand-chisel.
John Deere
I cut a pattern out of paper for the moldboard and share.
John Deere
I laid the pattern on the saw and cut out around it with a hand chisel, with the help of a striker and a sledge.
John Deere
I then laid the piece on the fire of the forge and heated it, a little at a time, shaping it as best I could with the hand hammer.
John Deere
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