"Henry Ford" was an American Business magnate/industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the twentieth century. His introduction of the Ford Model T/Model T History of the automobile/automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a Franchising/franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation and arranged for his family to control the company permanently.

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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

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

Life is a series of experiences, each one 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.

Reading musses up my mind.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're right.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

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

History is bunk.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

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

History is more or less bunk.

Don't find fault. Find a remedy.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

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

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.