If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“It ought to be the employer’s ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“It is easier to make money from money than it is to make money from business. Don't take the acumen of bankers… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Whereas once it was the customer who favored the merchant by dealing with him, conditions changed until it was the merchant who… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Titles in business have been greatly overdone and business has suffered. One of the bad features is the division of responsibility according… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“3. The putting of service before profit. Without a profit, business cannot extend. There is nothing inherently wrong about making a profit.… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“I have never been able to understand on what theory the original investment of money can be charged against a business. Those… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“I determined absolutely that never would I join a company in which finance came before the work or in which bankers or… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Now a business, in my way of thinking, is not a machine. It is a collection of people who are brought together… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.… — Henry Ford Copy Share
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford Copy Share
Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time. — Henry Ford Copy Share
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them. — Henry Ford Copy Share
A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us. — Henry Ford Copy Share
Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better… — Henry Ford Copy Share
The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet. — Henry Ford Copy Share
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT! — Henry Ford Copy Share
As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege… — Henry Ford Copy Share
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them. — Henry Ford Copy Share
