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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” Henry Ford “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Henry Ford “Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” Henry Ford “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” Henry Ford “You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.” Henry Ford “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” Henry Ford “Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” Henry Ford “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” Henry Ford “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.” Henry Ford “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford

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Page 1: Henry Ford Quotes

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” ― Henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” ― Henry Ford

“Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ― Henry Ford

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ― Henry Ford

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.” ― Henry Ford

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” ― Henry Ford

“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” ― Henry Ford

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ― Henry Ford

“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.” ― Henry Ford

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” ― Henry Ford

“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?” ― Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” ― Henry Ford

“When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....” ― Henry Ford

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste” ― Henry Ford

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“Vision without execution is just hallucination.” ― Henry Ford

“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice” ― Henry Ford

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs” ― Henry Ford

“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.” ― Henry Ford

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” ― Henry Ford

“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.” ― Henry Ford

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” ― Henry Ford

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” ― Henry Ford

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” ― Henry Ford

“You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.” ― Henry Ford

“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.” ― Henry Ford

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.” ― Henry Ford

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get to other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.” ― Henry Ford

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“There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” ― Henry Ford

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".” ― Henry Ford

“When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to biuld an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.

Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.” ― Henry Ford

“success is 99% failure” ― Henry Ford

“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.” ― Henry Ford

“Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though 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.” ― Henry Ford

“Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.” ― Henry Ford

“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” ― Henry Ford

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” ― Henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ― Henry Ford

“People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.” ― Henry Ford

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” ― Henry Ford

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“Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you are absolutely right.” ― Henry Ford

“everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” ― Henry Ford

“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.” ― Henry Ford

“None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. 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.” ― Henry Ford

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.” ― Henry Ford

“The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.” ― Henry Ford

“We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.” ― Henry Ford

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.” ― Henry Ford

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.”

― Henry Ford

“One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. ” ― Henry Ford

“If you say you can or you can't you are right either way” ― Henry Ford

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“Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.” ― Henry Ford

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” ― Henry Ford

“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” ― Henry Ford

“Those who walk with God, always reach their destination.” ― Henry Ford

“You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” ― Henry Ford

“To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.” ― Henry Ford

“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.” ― Henry Ford

“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.” ― Henry Ford

“That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.” ― Henry Ford

“I am looking for a lot of men who have and infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.” ― Henry Ford

“New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.” ― Henry Ford

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“Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.” ― Henry Ford

“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow” ― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.” ― Henry Ford

“ you can have any color in the world, as long as it's black.” ― Henry Ford

“As we serve our jobs we serve theworld.” ― Henry Ford

“Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.” ― Henry Ford

“If you think you can do it, or if you think you cannot do it, you will always be right” ― Henry Ford

“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail” ― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Sometimes you just don't like somebody” ― Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest thing a man can do, probably the reason so few of them do it.” ― Henry Ford

“To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.” ― Henry Ford

“Hidup adalah serangkaian pengalaman, Setiap pengalaman membuat kita lebih besar, walau pun kita tidak menyadarinya.” ― Henry Ford

“It ought to be the employer’s ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman’s ambition to make it possible” ― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Whether you think you cant or you cant , you're right” ― Henry Ford, Quotations of Henry Ford

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“If you think you can do a thing or think you can't, you're right.” ― Henry Ford

“To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.” ― Henry Ford

“You can have any color you want as longb as it is black” ― Henry Ford

“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.” ― Henry Ford

“Success is about creating valueFailure is a chance to begin again more intelligently. It is just a resting place. We learn more from our failures than our success” ― Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it” ― Henry Ford

“Experience is the thing of supreme value".” ― Henry Ford

“Whether you think you can or you think you can't either way you are right!” ― Henry Ford

“Speculation into thing already produced that is not business” ― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?” ― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Ci si myslite, ze to dokaze, alebo nedokaze, v oboch pripadoch mate pravdu.” ― Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work to do, that’s why so few people are engaged in it.” ― Henry Ford

"Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount"

"Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. "

"The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much."

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"Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything."

"Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end."

"When people are 'stung' in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness."

"What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men's labor should contribute to your gains?"

"Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself"

"The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community."

"People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized."

"The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people's progress and liberty."

"With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature's gifts, is the judgment upon man's failure, man's unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing."

"Profits made out of the distress of the people are always much smaller than profits made out of the most lavish service of the people at the lowest prices that competent management can make possible"

"Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice"

"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."

"Politics in the true sense, have to do with the prosperity, peace and security of the people."

"Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it."

"We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it."

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"Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far."

"There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose."

"Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life."

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing."

"Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season."

"We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor."

" Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time."

"..The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience."

"If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want."

"Christmas stands for the human factor which makes life tolerable midst the hurry of commerce and production. All of us need the annealing effect of Christ's example to relieve the hardening we get in the daily struggle for material success."

"The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own. "

"Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit."

"An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation."

"The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live."

"The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations."