Henry Ford
Henry Ford
Henry Fordwas an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 July 1863
CityGreenfield, MI
CountryUnited States of America
jobs theory method
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
inspirational success confidence
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
reading mind mind-reading
Reading musses up my mind.
war dirty greed
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.
inspiring education memories
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
business quality-goods cost
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.
money men thinking
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.
men discovery century
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
inspirational motivational business
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
inspirational best-friend friendship
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
men people community
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
play bankers industry
Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.
inspirational motivational positive
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
education teacher learning
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.