"Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary."
Henry Ford
Industrialist
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company, known for revolutionizing the automobile industry with assembly line production.
- Born
- July 30, 1863
- Died
- April 7, 1947
- Quotes
- 427
- Rank
- #5305
Quote collection
Henry Ford quotes (page 11 of 22)
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"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."
"Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product."
"A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them."
"Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving."
"Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character."
"A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired."
"A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."
"There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success."
"The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it."
"Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product."
"He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct."
"Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease."
"If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case."
"The object of living is work, experience, happiness."
"Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows."
"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
"When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat."
"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."
"Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas."