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
men machines slave
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.
people debt deals
Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.
teacher world this-world
No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.
men people world
People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.
block men eight
When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.
mind states changed
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.
cooperation individualism worth-living
Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.
men thinking progress
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
insufficient knows
Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.
thinking massage
Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.
science engineering long
Any colour - so long as it's black.
married self-empowering saddest
The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.
years car fifty
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
mistake things-in-life life-is
Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.