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Henry Ford Quotes - Page 11

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Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

Cooperation, Individualism, Worth Living

Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right.

Believe, People, Loser

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

Scatterbrain, Unspoken

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.

Kings, Book, Home

Working together is success.

Working Together, Together

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.

Children, People, Fifteen

Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1930). “Moving Forward”

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

Business, Competition, Motive

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

Money, Helping, Produce

Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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

Money, Covering, Manipulation

The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

Thinking, People, Tricks

Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.121, 谷月社

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

Money, Use It Or Lose It, Hands

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Integrity, Fake, Honor

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Men, Rich, Existence

Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.48, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Business, Positive Thinking, Mindset

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

Money, Work, Can Do

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

Thinking, People

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

Men, Fool

Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

Hard Work, Past, Management

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

Destiny, Men, Natural

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

Money, Thinking, People

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

Inspirational, Success, Confidence

When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.

Flower, Thinking, Green Fields

Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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.

Inspirational, Life, Education

The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

Spiritual, Men, Intellectual

Henry Ford (1926). “Today and tomorrow”

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