“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“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 so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one...”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
tags: car, model-t, price
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“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
tags: ben-ringel
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“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service—for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right—then money abundantly takes care of itself.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“That is the way with wise people—they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“The idea of gas engines was by no means new, but this was the first time that a really serious effort had been made to put them on the market. They were received with interest rather than enthusiasm and I do not recall any one who thought that the internal combustion engine could ever have more than a limited use. All the wise people demonstrated conclusively that the engine could not compete with steam. They never thought that it might carve out a career for itself. That is the way with wise people--they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“Speculation into thing already produced that is not business”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“It ought to be the employer’s ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman’s ambition to make it possible”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled—he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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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 as any guide for business, all they know is money.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“How soon will Ford blow up?" Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone. This rude, simple, primitive power which we call "stick-to-it-iveness" is the uncrowned king of the world of endeavour. People are utterly wrong in their slant upon things. They see the 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 in ease; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
tags: discipline
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“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, My Life and Work
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“Не може бути більшого абсурду та гіршої послуги людству, ніж заявити, що всі люди рівні. Адже очевидно, що люди не рівні, і будь-яка демократична концепція, яка прагне зробити людей рівними, є лише зусиллям спинити прогрес. Люди не можуть бути однаково здібними. Талановитих людей менше, ніж звичайних. Існує ймовірність, що людська маса зіштовхне здібніших від себе, але при цьому вона теж полетить униз.”
― Генрі Форд, My Life And Work
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“Мені шкода бідолах, які настільки м'які і кволі, що завжди вимагають "атмосфери доброзичливості" навколо себе. Інакше, вони не можуть виконувати свою роботу. Є такі люди. І врешті-решт, якщо вони достатньо не загартуються психічно й морально і не позбудуться свого м'якого опертя на "самопочуття", вони стануть невдахами. І це трапиться не тільки з їхніми справами, але і з їхніми характерами. Це так ніби їхні кістки достатньо не затверділи, і вони ніколи не могли стояти на власних ногах. Загалом у наших бізнес-організаціях прийнято занадто перейматися атмосферою доброзичливості. Люди звикли працювати з людьми, яких вони люблять. Зрештою, це відсуває на задній план чимало інших цінних якостей.
Не зрозумійте мене неправильно. Коли я використовую термін "атмосфера доброзичливості", я маю на увазі звичку робити свої особисті симпатії і антипатії єдиним стандартом для висновків. Припустімо, ви не любите людину. Це все, що є проти неї? Але це може говорити щось проти вас. Який стосунок мають ваші уподобання чи антипатії до фактів? Кожна людина здорового глузду знає, що є люди, яких вона не любить, і які справді здібніші, ніж вона сама.”
― Генрі Форд, My Life And Work
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“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, My Life and Work
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“Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“If you keep a record of all your failures you will soon have a list of everything which cannot be done.”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone—not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“True education is gained through the discipline of life. There”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“Ask 100 people what they want and 80 will not know. 15 will claim to know. 5 will have a preference. The 95 are the market, few of the 5 are willing to pay… Don't listen to the 5% who request the changes. Listen to the 95% who buy without making a fuss!”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work
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“Everything can always be done better than it is being done.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
tags: improvement, inspirational
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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. Well-conducted business enterprise cannot fail to return a profit, but profit must and inevitably will come as a reward for good service. It cannot be the basis—it must be the result of service.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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“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, My LIFE and WORK
tags: progress
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