Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
Born: July 30, 1863 Died: April 7, 1947
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford, he converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into an accessible utility that profoundly impacted the landscape of the 20th century. Ford was an antisemite who promoted The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion in the collection of articles known as The International Jew.
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.
Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
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.
Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.
As we serve our jobs we serve the world.
"Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled — he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there."
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
That is the way with wise people — they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work.