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Industrialist
Born On
1863-07-30
Died On
1947-04-07
Birth Place
Greenfield Township, Michigan
Death Place
Fair Lane, Dearborn, Michigan
Birth Sign
leo
Father
William Ford
Mother
Mary Litogot Ford
Spouse
Clara Ala Bryant
Nationality
American
Education
Detroit Business Institute-Downriver, Bryant & Stratton College
Business People, Automobile Industry, Engineers
Henry Ford was an innovator par excellence who transformed the auto-mobile industry and ensured that vehicles are affordable even to the common man. It was because of his keen knowledge of engineering and an impeccable wit that he earned the respect and admiration of his peers as well as employees. Here's one instance where his funny retort made the news. The research and development team at 'Ford' studied other cars in the market in order to understand their features better. It was one of the main reasons that they were able to make cars that were world class. They would buy a car and study its functioning in detail after a putting it through a test drive. Once Henry Ford decided to test one of the cars by Lanchester and took it for a drive from the Long Island Factory of 'Ford' to Detroit. When the paparazzi caught wind of Henry's journey, they asked him why he wasn't driving the 'Ford'. To which the auto-mobile engineer replied, 'Well, you see, it is this way, I am on a vacation now; I am in no hurry, we do not care much when we get home. That is the reason I am not in the Ford.' A quintessential orator Henry Ford has some of the best advices on matters ranging from problem solving to importance of making mistakes and even reincarnation. Have a look at these famous quotes by Ford to find the inspiration you've been missing.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Reason Thinking Work Intelligence
Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Opportunities Time Intelligence
Henry Ford

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Motivation Reputation
Henry Ford

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Leadership Right
Henry Ford

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.

Life Age Learning Mind
Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Success
Henry Ford

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.

People Funding
Henry Ford

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Quality Right
Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Eyes Wisdom
Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Life Character World Learning
Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

People Problems Time Energy
Henry Ford

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Work
Henry Ford

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.

Business Imagination
Henry Ford

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Success
Henry Ford

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Success
Henry Ford

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.

Experience Hope Knowledge
Henry Ford

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Leadership
Henry Ford

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Friendship Friendship
Henry Ford

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Money
Henry Ford

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Right
Henry Ford

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

School World
Henry Ford

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.

Greatness Fear
Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Nothing
Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Money Nothing Business
Henry Ford

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Observation People Time
Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Stars Energy Eyes
Henry Ford

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Right
Henry Ford

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Work Happiness Excitement
Henry Ford

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Tradition History
Henry Ford

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Poverty Penalty / Chastisement Crime
Henry Ford

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Experience World Knowledge
Henry Ford

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Henry Ford

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Business Service Worrying
Henry Ford

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Greatness America Problems Right
Henry Ford

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Problems
Henry Ford

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.

Quality
Henry Ford

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Service Wealth Happiness
Henry Ford

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.

Business Time
Henry Ford

History is more or less bunk.

History
Henry Ford

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Good
Henry Ford

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Life Money
Henry Ford

Any colour - so long as it's black.

Henry Ford

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

People
Henry Ford

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Henry Ford

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Exercise
Henry Ford

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Henry Ford

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Business
Henry Ford

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Life
Henry Ford

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Money
Henry Ford

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Night Business
Henry Ford

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

Money
Henry Ford

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Henry Ford

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Business
Henry Ford

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

World
Henry Ford

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Money Time
Henry Ford

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