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
life life-happiness work-experience
The object of living is work, experience, happiness.
ideas air want
The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.
money hands use-it-or-lose-it
Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
inspirational success graduation
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.
thinking people tricks
The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.
weed marijuana growth
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?
horse given faster
If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.
waste wasting-time lean-manufacturing
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
jobs theory method
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
inspirational success confidence
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
reading mind mind-reading
Reading musses up my mind.
war dirty greed
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.
inspiring education memories
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
business quality-goods cost
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.