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Henry Ford Quotes - Page 9

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All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about

All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.

Motivational, Real, School

The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

Country, War, Navy

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

Years, Car, Connections

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

Stories, Know How, Objects

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

Business, Company, Ford Motor

There is no such thing as no chance.

Positive, Chance

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Supreme, Values

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

Operations, Articles, Policy

Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.98, 谷月社

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Inspirational, Life, Learning

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.

Customers

Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.27, 谷月社

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

Lying, Opportunity, Age

Henry Ford (1926). “Today and tomorrow”

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Wisdom, Useless Things, Gold

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

Brain, Mouths, Pressure

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.

Doe, Helping

Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.6, 谷月社

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

Jobs, Unemployment, Wages

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

Inspirational, Money, Children

I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Book, Mind

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

Men, People, Community

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

Work, Men, Sky

Henry Ford (2006). “My Life and Work”, p.213, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

Age, Raw Materials, Generations

A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.

Book, Men, Boys

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

Waiting, Cost, Buying

Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.91, 谷月社

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

Running, Courage, Trying

"How to live long and prosper" by Simon Caulkin, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2002.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

Journey, Flow, Location

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

Long, Special, Looks

Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.6, 谷月社

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