"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm."
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
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"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible."
"If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it."
"An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
"Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time."
"The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy."
"Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity."
"Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible."
"I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work."
"The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed."
"If it doesn't add value, it's waste."
"One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."
"Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do."
"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
"It is the customer that pays the wages"
"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
"Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich."
"An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things."
"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
"Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value."