Henry Ford
United States
30 Jul 1863 // 7 Apr 1947
Industrialist
30 Jul 1863 // 7 Apr 1947
Industrialist
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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.
Business cannot eliminate unemployment, but each business can do its competitive best to expand its own sales and employment.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
My Life and Work (cowritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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