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
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Don't find the fault, find the remedy
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Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you still have to file your 990 each year.
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These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.
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Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.
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If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.
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There is no such thing as no chance.
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There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.
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A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.
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Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.
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Political parties are like poets, born, not made.
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When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.
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In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
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Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.
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Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.