Henry Ford Quotes

• To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Success
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  You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reputation, Build
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  Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

  Henry Ford

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  Tags in Wood, Twice
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  Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Failure, Opportunity

  Tags in Simply, Again, Intelligently

• The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

  Henry Ford

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

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Handle, Customer

• Vision without execution is just hallucination.

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Success
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  Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

  Henry Ford

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  Tags in Think, Usually

• Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you are absolutely right.

  Henry Ford

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  Tags in Inspiration

• If you say you can or you can’t you are right either way.

  Henry Ford

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  Tags in Faith
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  If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

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  Tags in Faster, People

• Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick, you shouldn’t take it.

  Henry Ford

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• Any color—so long as it’s black.

  Henry Ford

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• History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition.

  Henry Ford

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

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Obstacles, Frightful, Eyes, Things

• Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Genius, Work

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

  Henry Ford

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Thinks, Man

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

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Wisdom, Work

  Tags in Reason

• History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.

  Henry Ford

  Topics in History

  Tags in Now, Tradition

• The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Inspirational

Henry Ford (70)

Birth:	30th July, 1863
Death:	7th April, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Industrialist, Inventor

About

Henry Ford was born in Greenfield Township, Michigan, USA. He was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford invented neither the automobile nor the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. As the owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He wrote several books include: The International Jew, My Life And Work, Ford Ideals, and Today and Tomorrow.

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