Henry Ford Quotes

American business magnate1863–1947 10 quotes

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. As founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that became known as Fordism. In 1911 he received a patent for the transmission mechanism used in the Ford Model T.

Born in a farmhouse in Greenfield Township, Michigan, he left home at 16 to find work in Detroit. In the late 1880s he began repairing and then building engines, and in the 1890s he worked with a division of Edison Electric. After earlier business failures, he founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903. The Model T, introduced in 1908, is credited with transforming both transportation and American industry.
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Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

American business magnate

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

American business magnate

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

American business magnate

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

American business magnate

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.