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
race forever half
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.
mean competition good-man
I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.
motivational real school
All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.
confused progress fever
Change is not always progress.... A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.
running mean fuel
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.
men funeral details
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
feet able attention
A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.
strong business believe
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
kings book home
As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.
birthday running men
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
economy spending used
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
moving pieces steps
Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.
motivational selfish men
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
real progress might
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.