Henry Ford
United States
30 Jul 1863 // 7 Apr 1947
Industrialist
30 Jul 1863 // 7 Apr 1947
Industrialist
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations and improve the article.
My Life and Work (cowritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
I will build a motor car for the great multitude...constructed of the best materials... so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one.
Quoted in 'The Businessmen of the Century,' Fortune (November 22, 1999)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Power and machinery, money and goods are useful only as they set us free to live.
1923. My Life and Work (cowritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Management productivity is a more appropriate term than labor productivity. Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.
Speech, U.S. News & World Report (March 1959)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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