Occupation: Industrialist Birth: July 30, 1863 Death: April 7, 1947
When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructe….
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end..
We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead….
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago..
The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the ….
If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ab….
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have fail….
When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will….
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 mysel….
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people..
People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Succ….
Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky..
I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard..
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time..
America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers..
Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right..
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything..
Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for i….
When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here..
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people..
The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, ….