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Henry Ford quotes

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“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“As we serve our jobs we serve the world.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“Thinking is the hardest work any one can do—which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“I cannot discover that any one knows enough about anything on this earth definitely to say what is and what is not possible.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“No work with interest is ever hard.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“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
“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity of work.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“It ought to be the employer's ambition, as leader, to pay better wages than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman's ambition to make this possible.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“A philanthropy that spends its time and money in helping the world to do more for itself is far better than the sort which merely gives and thus encourages idleness.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“Money is only a tool in business.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“I will build a motor car for the great multitude.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“You can hardly have too much harmony in business. But you can go too far in picking men because they harmonize.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“Speculation in things already produced—that is not business.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work

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