Henry Ford quote: "Ask 100 people what they want and 80 will not know. 15 will claim to know. 5 will have a preference. The 95 are the market, few of the 5 are willing to pay… Don't listen to the 5% who request the changes. Listen to the 95% who buy without making a fuss!"

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD

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

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for ...
HENRY FORD

If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.
HENRY FORD

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int...
HENRY FORD

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own bu...
HENRY FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays you...
HENRY FORD

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough...
HENRY FORD

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire...
HENRY FORD

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the bettermen...
HENRY FORD

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.
HENRY FORD

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. ...
HENRY FORD

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
HENRY FORD

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

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
HENRY FORD

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
HENRY FORD

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, inte...
HENRY FORD

Never complain. Never explain.
HENRY FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
HENRY FORD

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
HENRY FORD

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
HENRY FORD

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
HENRY FORD

The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, t...
HENRY FORD

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
HENRY FORD

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
HENRY FORD

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching arou...
HENRY FORD

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
HENRY FORD

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the w...
HENRY FORD

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it b...
HENRY FORD

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
HENRY FORD

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
HENRY FORD

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
HENRY FORD

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to th...
HENRY FORD

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar...
HENRY FORD

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
HENRY FORD

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be en...
HENRY FORD

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.
HENRY FORD

History is more or less bunk.
HENRY FORD

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to dea...
HENRY FORD

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
HENRY FORD

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I...
HENRY FORD

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what h...
HENRY FORD

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can s...
HENRY FORD

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ON...
HENRY FORD

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
HENRY FORD

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
HENRY FORD

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
HENRY FORD

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

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.
HENRY FORD

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorro...
HENRY FORD

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
HENRY FORD

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead o...
HENRY FORD

A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
HENRY FORD

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
HENRY FORD

Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obvious...
HENRY FORD

You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ev...
HENRY FORD

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

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right
HENRY FORD

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
HENRY FORD

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD

The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obv...
HENRY FORD

What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
HENRY FORD

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the presen...
HENRY FORD

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

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charg...
HENRY FORD

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished some...
HENRY FORD

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
HENRY FORD

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

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
HENRY FORD

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
HENRY FORD

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
HENRY FORD

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who p...
HENRY FORD

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what h...
HENRY FORD

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
HENRY FORD

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
HENRY FORD

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
HENRY FORD

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

Any colour - so long as it's black.
HENRY FORD

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
HENRY FORD

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
HENRY FORD

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
HENRY FORD

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind...
HENRY FORD

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarr...
HENRY FORD

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man wil...
HENRY FORD

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your ...
HENRY FORD

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
HENRY FORD

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for i...
HENRY FORD

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
HENRY FORD

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.
HENRY FORD

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
HENRY FORD

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man ca...
HENRY FORD

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of pr...
HENRY FORD

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

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
HENRY FORD

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
HENRY FORD

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man w...
HENRY FORD

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and a...
HENRY FORD

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of...
HENRY FORD

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tin...
HENRY FORD

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realiz...
HENRY FORD

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
HENRY FORD

Reading musses up my mind.
HENRY FORD

History is bunk.
HENRY FORD

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment o...
HENRY FORD

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to reali...
HENRY FORD

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can ...
HENRY FORD

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
HENRY FORD

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

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. the only real security that a man can...
HENRY FORD

All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the ...
HENRY FORD

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
HENRY FORD

The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is ...
HENRY FORD

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard...
HENRY FORD

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
HENRY FORD

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker'...
HENRY FORD

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greed...
HENRY FORD

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead o...
HENRY FORD

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces...
HENRY FORD

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
HENRY FORD

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving
HENRY FORD

Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer.
HENRY FORD

If we don't take care of the customer... somebody else will.
HENRY FORD

It takes less effort to keep an old customer satisfied than to get a new customer interested
HENRY FORD

You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow
HENRY FORD

One's own employees ought to be one's own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity...
HENRY FORD

Jeśli człowiek ma zamiar do końca życia pozostać pracownikiem fizycznym, to powinien równo z w...
HENRY FORD

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard...
HENRY FORD

The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviousl...
HENRY FORD

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you’re right!
HENRY FORD

Clearly, this shows that the more practice you have, the more prepared you are if it happens and the...
HENRY FORD

We had conventioneers in Los Angeles who said, 'Why would we want to go to Detroit?'
HENRY FORD

Firmy, które rosną dzięki rozwojowi i ulepszeniom, nie zginą. Ale kiedy firma przestaje być tw�...
HENRY FORD

You can have any color you want, as long as it's black.
HENRY FORD

Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet...
HENRY FORD

It's hard for us to know exactly what was related to his prior confinement,
HENRY FORD

Every time an Alfa goes by, I tip my hat.
HENRY FORD

plop and drop, plug and play.
HENRY FORD

There is no such thing as no chance.
HENRY FORD

Too many of us, when we accomplish what we set out to do, exclaim, "See what I have done!" instead o...
HENRY FORD

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay...
HENRY FORD

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." Henry Ford
HENRY FORD

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can
HENRY FORD

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
HENRY FORD

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my...
HENRY FORD

Change is not always progress....A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of ...
HENRY FORD

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
HENRY FORD

I don?t believe in titles, they make people think they are superior
HENRY FORD

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right
HENRY FORD

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs
HENRY FORD

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves
HENRY FORD

Money is like an arm or a leg - use it or lose it
HENRY FORD

Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next.
HENRY FORD

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of vie...
HENRY FORD

Failure is the oppurtunity to begin again more intelligently.
HENRY FORD

You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be en...
HENRY FORD

whether you think you can or you think you can't your right. Henry Ford
HENRY FORD

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

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize th...
HENRY FORD

There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the low...
HENRY FORD

People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black
HENRY FORD

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
HENRY FORD

We can get fuel from fruit, from that shrub by the roadside, or from apples, weeds, saw-dust - almos...
HENRY FORD

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
HENRY FORD

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do wha...
HENRY FORD

An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit
HENRY FORD

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what...
HENRY FORD

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
HENRY FORD

There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.
HENRY FORD

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
HENRY FORD

You don't build a reputation on what you're going to do
HENRY FORD

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the c...
HENRY FORD

The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and...
HENRY FORD

If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right.
HENRY FORD

It is easy to give alms; it is better to work to make the giving of alms unnecessary
HENRY FORD

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
HENRY FORD

An American can have a Ford in any color so long as its black.
HENRY FORD

The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we...
HENRY FORD

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for ...
HENRY FORD

Last 2005 Ford Thunderbird produced July 1st 2005 for the family of Josephine Ford.
HENRY FORD

Our recent engagement with the union has been conducted in a constructive and open atmosphere, and I...
HENRY FORD

It was that engine which took me into automotive transportation.
HENRY FORD

It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, ...
HENRY FORD

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
HENRY FORD

Vision without execution is just hallucination.
HENRY FORD

We feel the plant is more than an intent to knock the socks off competition, ... We feel this plant ...
HENRY FORD

You make what we buy.
HENRY FORD

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD

Business will get better, but we won't know when it does
HENRY FORD

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.
HENRY FORD

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there ...
HENRY FORD

Ask 100 people what they want and 80 will not know. 15 will claim to know. 5 will have a preference. The 95 are the market, few of the 5 are willing to pay… Don't listen to the 5% who request the changes. Listen to the 95% who buy without making a fuss!

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Ask 100 people what they want and 80 will not know. 15 will claim to know. 5 will have a preference. The 95 are the market, few of the 5 are willing to pay… Don't listen to the 5% who request the changes. Listen to the 95% who buy without making a fuss!

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