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
mean college men
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.
able factors suspects
Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right
age raw-materials generations
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.
men trying minimum-wage
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
causes looks misery
Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.
art giving world
I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.
looks
The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.
hard-work past management
Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.
men fool once-in-a-lifetime
Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.
jobs men machines
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.
supreme values
Experience is the thing of supreme value".
leader employment world
The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.
people lasts kind
The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts
customers
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.