Henry Ford Quotes
19 quotes from Henry Ford — Founder of Ford Motor Company..
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
“If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.”
“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“To do more for the world than the world does for you. That is success.”
“Young man, that's the thing; you have it. Keep at it. Electric cars must keep near to power stations. The storage battery is too heavy. Steam cars won't do, either, for they require a boiler and fire. Your car is self-contained — carries its own power plant — no fire, no boiler, no smoke and no steam. You have the thing. Keep at it.”
“I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one — and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.”
“An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history — he is one who can accomplish things. A man who cannot think is not an educated man, however many college degrees he may have acquired. Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.”
“You cannot learn in any school what the world is going to do next year, but you can learn some of the things which the world has tried to do in former years, and where it failed and where it succeeded.”
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.”
“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it's black.”
