Henry Ford Wisdom/Quotes

Henry Ford Quotes & Wisdom

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“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
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 “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
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“Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”-Henry Ford Quotes & Wisdom-

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Henry Ford Quotes Coming Together

“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
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“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
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“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?”
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“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
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“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
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“When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....”
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“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste”
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“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice”
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“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
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“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
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“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs”
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“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
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“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.”
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“You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.”
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“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
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“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”
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“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
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“If you say you can or you can't you are right either way”
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“You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
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“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
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“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.
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Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.”
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“Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.”
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“Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.”
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“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow”
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“Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
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“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing neccesary to a worthwhile achievement".”
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“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
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“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”
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“None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.”
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“Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.”
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“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
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“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
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“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
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“I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one...”
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
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“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”
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“everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
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“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
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“The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.”
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“You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”
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“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”
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“One who fears failure limits his activities.
Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.”
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“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.”
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“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.”
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“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
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“To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.”
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“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.”
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“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail” ​
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