Henry Ford
United States
30 Jul 1863 // 7 Apr 1947
Industrialist
30 Jul 1863 // 7 Apr 1947
Industrialist
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Power and machinery, money and goods are useful only as they set us free to live.
1923. My Life and Work (cowritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Management productivity is a more appropriate term than labor productivity. Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.
Speech, U.S. News & World Report (March 1959)
We in the U.S. have a problem or, if you will, an opportunity to break away from technological traditions and to find really new and better ways of making products for the markets of the world.
I have no use for a motor car which has more spark plugs than a cow has teats.
My Life and Work (cowritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Quoted in Woodbury Reports Archives (December 1994)
Industry must manage to keep wages high and prices low. Otherwise it will limit the number of its customers. One's own employees should be one's best customers.
Quoted in The American Treasury 1455-1955 (Clifton Fadiman, ed.; 1955)
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
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Essays
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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