Thursday, April 17, 2008

Great Quotes by and about Henry Ford and the Model T.

From Mr. Ford's notebooks:
"Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose."
In the book written by Robert Lacey "Ford The Man and the Machine"

"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."-Henry Ford

"History is more or less bunk."--Henry Ford

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed ."
--Henry Ford

"The Customer Can Have Any Color He Wants So Long As It's Black". -- Henry Ford

"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history." --Henry Ford

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."--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

"Don't find a fault. Find a remedy." --- Henry Ford

"What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark." - Henry Ford

"If you think you can or you think you can't, you will ALWAYS be right." -- Henry Ford

If you chop your own wood it will warm you twice. - sign in Henry Ford's house.

"Life is a series of experience, 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

"One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Most of the bars we beat against are in ourselves --- we put them there, and we can take them down." --- Henry Ford

"Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it." Henry Ford

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it." - Henry Ford

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford.

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." - Henry Ford

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." -Henry Ford. Interview 1919

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it, if you are sick you shouldn't take it." - Henry Ford

"We wants to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." - Henry Ford, Chicago Tribune 25 May 1916

"At least I don't have to deal with the robot's union." - Henry Ford

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