Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company and lead inventor of the mass production assembly line technique. By creating the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford, he turned the car from an expensive curiosity into an affordable transportation that would have a profound effect on the 20th century landscape. Henry Ford Quotes are read below.
His introduction to the Model T car revolutionized American industry and transportation. He was one of the world’s richest and best-known people as the owner of the Ford Motor Corporation. “Fordism” honors him: mass production of cheap goods combined with high wages for workers. Ford had a global dream, the secret to peace being consumerism. His deep determination to aggressively cut costs culminated in many technological and business advancements, including a franchise program that placed dealerships across much of North America and in major cities across six continents.
Ford left the Ford Foundation with much of his considerable wealth and secured permanent management of the business for his children. Via his newspaper The Dearborn Independent and the book The International Jew, Ford was also widely known for his pacifism during the first years of World War I and for promoting antisemitic material, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, allegedly influencing the creation of Nazism.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Henry Ford
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
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.
Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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.
Henry Ford
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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.
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
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
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.
Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford