"Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free"
Read quote
8 likes
Quote collection
Henry Ford quotes (page 14 of 22)
427 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Too many men are afraid of being fools."
Read quote
8 likes
"The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it."
Read quote
8 likes
"I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."
Read quote
8 likes
"I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago."
Read quote
8 likes
"When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build 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."
Read quote
8 likes
"There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty Orientalism which had insidiously affected every channel of expression...The fact that these influences are all traceable to one racial source [Judaism] is something to be reckoned with...Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are sapping the moral stamina of the people."
Read quote
8 likes
"Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions."
Read quote
7 likes
"Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine."
Read quote
7 likes
"If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work."
Read quote
7 likes
"Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls."
Read quote
7 likes
"When bankers get into business they usually destroy it."
Read quote
7 likes
"Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right."
Read quote
7 likes
"Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it."
Read quote
7 likes
"The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things."
Read quote
7 likes
"Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry."
Read quote
7 likes
"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material."
Read quote
7 likes
"A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought."
Read quote
7 likes
"I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives"
Read quote
7 likes
"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
Read quote
7 likes