Quotes by Ford, Henry




Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and the Henry Ford Company (which later became Cadillac). He was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles. This achievement not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and the rest of the world, but also had such tremendous influence over modern culture that many social theorists identify this phase of economic and social history as "Fordism." Some credit him with contributing to the creation of a middle class in American society..

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."

Ford, Henry on belief
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"A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."

Ford, Henry on bores and boredom
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"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."

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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business."

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"It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages."

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"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."

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"It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history."

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"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

Ford, Henry on work
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"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

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"The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work."

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"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it."

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"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Ford, Henry on work
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"Never complain. Never explain."

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"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

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"People can have the Model T in any colour – so long as it’s black."

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