"Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built."
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 3 of 22)
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"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
"If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere."
"Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time."
"Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing."
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."
"A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life."
"Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets."
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
"It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail."
"Understand the difference between being at work and working."
"I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself."
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
"Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do."
"Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity."
"Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer."
"If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse."
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
"If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary."
"Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience"