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
needs bunk
I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.
waiting buying cost
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.
doe helping
Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.
challenges brain
Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.
men rich existence
A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.
easy hard
It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.
waste expansion borrowing
Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.
sake way failing
We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.
morning men past
Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.
thinking people world
The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.
thinking firsts thinking-first
Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.
next chance next-time
Failure is the chance to do it better next time.
leader position
You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.
thinking tasks cases
If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case.