Quotes by Henry Ford

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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
 
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
 
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
 
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
 
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
 
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
 
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
 
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
 
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
 
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
 
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
 
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
 
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
 
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.
 
Asking 'Who ought to be the boss?' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
 
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
 
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.
 
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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