Henry Ford Quotes About Business
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Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
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You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
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Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.
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In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.
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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.
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Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
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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.
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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.
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Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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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.
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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
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A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
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Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.
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