"Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!"
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 21 of 22)
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"I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means."
"Political parties are like poets, born, not made."
"Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article."
"Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it."
"It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers."
"I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad."
"Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence."
"Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves."
"No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again."
"For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine."
"It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression."
"Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction."
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you still have to file your 990 each year."
"..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos."
"The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts"
"There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right ."
"You can get it in any color, as long as it is black"
"The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends."
"Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right"