Quotes by Henry Ford
Tremendis Learning found 25 quote/s on its database for Henry Ford.
   
1."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."
  
2."Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."
  
3."Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
  
4."Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
  
5."You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
  
6."The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
  
7."If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
  
8."It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
  
9."Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
  
10."You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible."
  
11."Vision without execution is just hallucination."
  
12."Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice."
  
13."When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
  
14."If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get to other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
  
15."Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
  
16."When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to biuld an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.""
  
17."You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."
  
18."If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
  
19."Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less."
  
20."Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."
  
21."A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."
  
22."None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible."
  
23."Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
  
24."Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
  
25."Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off you goal."