Progress Henry Ford Quotes

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

Advancement begins within the man himself; when he advances from half-interest to strength of purpose; when he advances from hesitancy to decisive directness; when he advances from immaturity to maturity of judgment; when he advances from apprenticeship to mastery; when he advances from a mere dilettante at labour to a worker who finds a genuine joy in work; when he advances from an eye-server to one who can be entrusted to do his work without oversight and without prodding - why, then the world advances! ~ Henry Ford

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking. ~ Henry Ford

1. An absence of fear of the future and of veneration for the past. One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. What is past is useful only as it suggests ways and means for progress. ~ Henry Ford

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is. ~ Henry Ford

He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct. ~ Henry Ford

The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few. ~ Henry Ford

Material progress does not merely fail to relieve poverty, it actually produces it. This association of progress with poverty is the great enigma of our times. It is the riddle that the sphinx of fate puts to our civilization. And which NOT to answer is to be destroyed. ~ Henry George

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. ~ Henry Ford

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. ~ Henry Ford

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things. ~ Henry Ford

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence. ~ Henry Ford

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much. ~ Henry Ford

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best. ~ Henry Ford

I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard. I always am certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough. But it was a very great thing to have my wife even more confident than I was. She has always been that way. ~ Henry Ford

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~ Henry Ford

This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be "good for business". The precedent set by Henry Ford in 1914, who offered workers $5.00 per day (a very high wage at the time) so they could afford to buy the same cars they made, is often invoked. ~ Jim Stanford

Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the publication of the 'Origin of Species'; and who have watched, not without astonishment, the rapid and complete change which has been effected both inside and outside the boundaries of the scientific world in the attitude of men's minds towards the doctrines which are expounded in that great work, can have been prepared for the extraordinary manifestation of affectionate regard for the man, and of profound reverence for the philosopher, which followed the announcement, on Thursday last, of the death of Mr Darwin. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer. ~ Henry Ford

Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket. ~ Jim Rogers

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail. ~ Henry Ford

To William Ford, on his own land at last, free of the old country, the farm was liberating; to Henry Ford, bored and restless, it was like a prison. (Cows came to symbolize his hatred of the farm. They were lazy, and they lay around all the time. He spent an entire lifetime railing against them. "The cow is the crudest machine in the world," he once said. On another occasion he said that if people would destroy all the cows in the world, they would eliminate the sources of war. When his company became large, he had his labs working constantly to find substitutes for dairy products.) ~ David Halberstam

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. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is. ~ Henry Ford

There is no reason why a man who is willing to work should not be able to work and to receive the full value of his work. There is equally no reason why a man who can but will not work should not receive the full value of his services to the community. He should most certainly be permitted to take away from the community an equivalent of what he contributes to it. If he contributes nothing he should take away nothing. He should have the freedom of starvation. We ~ Henry Ford

From seven in the morning until half past one the next morning
that's quite a record time for a visitor to stay at a museum," [Henry Ford] continued. "It proves that you may be even more interested in mechanics than I am. And you almost have to be a fanatic to compete with me. That's certainly something!" he exclaimed, grinning broad approval of our common bond. ~ Diego Rivera

If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten ~ Henry Ford

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case. ~ Henry Ford

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity. ~ Henry Ford

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. ~ Henry Ford

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. ~ Henry Miller

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry. ~ Henry Ford

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages. ~ Henry Ford

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Henry Ford is quoted as saying. "History is more or less bunk." Now, if he never spoke those words, doesn't that just prove he was right when he didn't say them? ~ Alex Bosworth

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ~ Henry Ford

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away. ~ Henry Ford

It is the customer that pays the wages ~ Henry Ford

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts. ~ Henry Ford

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars. ~ Robert Kuttner