"There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing."
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 13 of 22)
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"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."
"There is no such thing as no chance."
"I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience."
"Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end."
"To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition"
"There is joy in work."
"If it is 'anti-Semitism' to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish."
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
"The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on."
"History is more or less bunk."
"The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody."
"History's just one darn thing after another."
"The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity."
"If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation."
"A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us."
"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."
"Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn."
"Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made."
"Every object tells a story if you know how to read it."