The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.
Henry FordGold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.
Henry FordIf you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so.
Henry FordMy opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.
Henry FordThe time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
Henry FordOur country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity - not simply for ourselves but for others - the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.
Henry FordThere is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
Henry FordIf governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.
Henry FordI didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.
Henry FordIf you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability
Henry FordTo lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition
Henry FordTwo percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.
Henry FordWe are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.
Henry FordTo teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
Henry FordMerely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Henry FordThere is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!
Henry FordWhen you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.
Henry FordIf you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
Henry FordThe cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
Henry FordThere is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.
Henry FordI invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
Henry FordThere 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.
Henry FordYou can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry FordEvery depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.
Henry FordWhat we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power
Henry FordDisappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
Henry FordIf it is 'anti-Semitism' to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish.
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