Great Quotes from Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford, he converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into an accessible conveyance that profoundly impacted the landscape of the 20th century.
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
“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.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.”
“There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can.”
“Enthusiasm is the east that makes your hopes shine to the stars.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
“Competition is the key cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.”
“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.”
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing you’re right.”
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
“Education is preeminently a matter of quality not amount.”
“The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.”
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
“The genius of the american people is self-reliance.”
“America is not a land of money but of wealth, not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.”
“Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.”
“The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.”
“A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.”