Quotes by Ford, Henry

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

Ford, Henry on adversity
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"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."

Ford, Henry on deeds and good deeds
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"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."

Ford, Henry on enthusiasm
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"The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence."

Ford, Henry on excellence
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"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it."

Ford, Henry on exercise
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"If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it."

Ford, Henry on experience
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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

Ford, Henry on failure
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"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

Ford, Henry on faults
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

Ford, Henry on fear
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"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured."

Ford, Henry on fools and foolishness
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"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

Ford, Henry on friends and friendship
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"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

Ford, Henry on giving
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"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

Ford, Henry on god
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"History is more or less bunk."

Ford, Henry on history and historians
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"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."

Ford, Henry on ideals and idealism
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"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

Ford, Henry on leadership
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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."

Ford, Henry on learning
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on ability
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"The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."

Ford, Henry on ability
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"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."

Ford, Henry on ability
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"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Ford, Henry on mistakes
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"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life."

Ford, Henry on money
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"Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it."

Ford, Henry on money
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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

Ford, Henry on possibilities
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"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."

Ford, Henry on possibilities
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"There is no such thing as no chance."

Ford, Henry on possibilities
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"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."

Ford, Henry on potential
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"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources -- to do something about them."

Ford, Henry on potential
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"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."

Ford, Henry on problems
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"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

Ford, Henry on problems
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"When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves."

Ford, Henry on problems
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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."

Ford, Henry on quality
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"If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere."

Ford, Henry on quality
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"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

Ford, Henry on reputation
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"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."

Ford, Henry on responsibility
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"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."

Ford, Henry on rivalry
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"Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless."

Ford, Henry on security
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"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

Ford, Henry on service
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Ford, Henry on simplicity
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"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."

Ford, Henry on speculation
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