"For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No, I have no desire to know what, or who I was once; or what, or who, I shall be in the ages to come. This belief in immortality makes present living the more attractive. It gives you all the time there is. You will always be able to finish what you start. There is no fever or strain in such an outlook. We are here in life for one purpose: to get experience. We are all getting it, and we shall all use it somewhere."
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 20 of 22)
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"I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard."
"I'll sleep well tonight"
"Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power."
"Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king."
"No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future."
"Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully."
"A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing."
"We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us."
"Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far."
"It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?"
"A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed."
"Who stops learning may be old."
"Working together is success."
"I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life."
"The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money."
"Experience is the thing of supreme value"."
"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."
"We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table."
"Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal."