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About Henry Ford

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As sole owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line which could finish a car in 98 minutes, coupled with high wages for his workers—notably the $5.00 per day pay scale adopted in 1914. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. Ford did not believe in accountants; he amassed one of the world's largest fortunes without ever having his company audited. The company's first audit occurred after Henry Ford II became head of the company. Henry Ford's intense commitment to lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put a dealership in every city in North America, and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.

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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it.

There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Never complain, never explain.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Too many of us, when we accomplish what we set out to do, exclaim, 'See what I have done!' instead of saying, ' See where I have been led.'

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Whether you think you can or think you can't you are right.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

There is joy in work.

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Reading musses up my mind.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

A set back is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

Money is like an arm or a leg use it or lose it.

People can have the Model T in any colour so long as it's black.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

An idealist is a man who helps other people to be prosperous.

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Dont find a fault; find a remedy.

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently try again.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

There is no man living who is not capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

The question, 'Who ought to be boss?' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not a history.

History is more or less bunk.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

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