Henry Ford - Quodid

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.

Quotes from Henry Ford

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

action doing reputation

History is more or less bunk.

history falsehood

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

People can have the Model T in any colour—so long as it's black.

History is more or less bunk.

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right..

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.