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Business Quotes by Henry Ford

53 Business quotes by Henry Ford

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A customer voting with a dollar shows how every purchase decides a business’s fate. Ford reminds us that people, not factories, are the core that can rebuild a company after loss. He also says competition constantly trims costs, urging firms to stay sharp.

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A low wage business is always insecure.

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Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

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Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

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

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

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

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“Speculation into thing already produced that is not business”

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Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

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This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

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It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need…

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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better…

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The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

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

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“It is easier to make money from money than it is to make money from business. Don't take the acumen of bankers…

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Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One…

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“Whereas once it was the customer who favored the merchant by dealing with him, conditions changed until it was the merchant who…

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The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what…

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Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit,…

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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of…

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Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it…

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“2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to…

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An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing…

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“3. The putting of service before profit. Without a profit, business cannot extend. There is nothing inherently wrong about making a profit.…

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“Titles in business have been greatly overdone and business has suffered. One of the bad features is the division of responsibility according…

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The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation…

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“I determined absolutely that never would I join a company in which finance came before the work or in which bankers or…

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“Now a business, in my way of thinking, is not a machine. It is a collection of people who are brought together…

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“I have never been able to understand on what theory the original investment of money can be charged against a business. Those…

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In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

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Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

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Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

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When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

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Business will get better, but we won't know when it does

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A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

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A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is…

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The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

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

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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.…

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

People are as happy as they choose to be.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Don't find the fault, find the remedy

A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better…

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

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!

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

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege…

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.