Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) was a famous American businessman. He founded the Ford Motor Company, and developed the production chains we know today.
Born into a rural family in the state of Michigan, Henry Ford patented more than 150 devices. His passion for motors represented a true revolution, since it made the availability of vehicles accessible to the general population.
24. Most people spend more time and energy dwelling on problems than trying to solve them.
Why worry if that is not truly effective?
25. Gathering is a beginning; staying together is progress; Working together is a success.
The key to success in cooperative work.
26. First of all, preparing is the secret to success.
Training is crucial in our future performance.
27. Failure is simply a new opportunity to start over, this time smarter.
Demystifying failure.
28. The competitor to fear is the one who never cares about you, but keeps improving his own business all the time.
A great phrase from Henry Ford to apply to business.
29. Speculation is just a word that covers making money from price manipulation, rather than supplying goods and services.
A criticism of certain errors in the economic system, according to Ford.
30. There is a rule for the industrialist and it is: make the best possible quality of products at the lowest possible cost, paying the highest possible wages.
A way of managing the company that was a true revolution in its time.
31. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Our life must be full of learning.
32. One of the great discoveries a man can make, one of his great surprises, is to discover that he can do what he feared he could not do.
That comforting feeling.
33. It is my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
While some waste time on stupid things, others work from dawn to dusk to achieve their goals.
34. There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have achieved something.
The feeling that we are improving ourselves can give meaning to what we do.
35. There is no shame in honest failures; There is shame in fearing failure.
Exposing yourself to error is essential to improve.
36. There are no big problems, there are just a lot of small problems.
Knowing how to isolate them and address them coherently is the key.
37. If we all move forward together, success takes care of itself.
Success comes only when certain conditions are met.
38. Money does not create us, it only unmasks us.
We exist beyond transactions.
39. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
When we fail, we must try to draw a lesson from it.
40. Vision without execution is just a hallucination.
Nothing has value if it is not expressed in actions.
41. The secret of my success is to pay as if I were prodigal and sell as if I were bankrupt.
A double dynamic that in Ford’s time brought prosperity.
42. If there is a secret to success, it lies in the ability to appreciate the point of view of others and see things from that point of view as well as from your own.
Having a vision rich in nuances gives power to change things.
43. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always have.
A question of logic.
44. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only story worth having is the story we make today.
For Ford, traditional has no default value.
45. It is not the employer who pays the salaries. Businessmen only handle money. It is the client who pays the salaries.
A way of looking at the relationship between employer and employee.
46. ​​Experience is something of supreme importance.
Learning to do things gives us the potential to repeat successes.
47. How we serve our jobs, we serve the world.
Every day we add value to the world.
48. Genius is rarely recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
Eccentricity attracts more attention than patience and effort.
49. Those who quit are more numerous than those who fail.
Many of the battles are first lost in the imagination.
50. To see a thing clearly in the mind, make it begin to take shape.
Concretizing and committing to ideas is essential.
51. If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and skill.
Power does not reside in money, but in what leads us to carve out a way to survive.
52. When we think that tomorrow will never come, it has already become yesterday.
Thought projects us into the future.
53. Impossible means that you have not found the solution.
Nothing is impossible in itself.
54. No man should be forced to do the work that a machine can do.
Modernity linked to industrial revolutions is reflected in the thought of Henry Ford.
55. There are three things that become more valuable with age; old wood to burn, old books to read and old friends to enjoy.
An interesting comparison about the value of vintage.
56. You say I started with practically nothing, but that’s not correct. We all start with everything there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.
No person appears in a vacuum, in all cases there is a context to rely on.
57. The man who uses his skill and his constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, will be successful.
Thinking big makes us move forward.
58. Enthusiasm is the leaven that makes your hopes shine in the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your walk. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Every interesting project has an irrational component in it.
59. I didn’t invent anything new. I simply put together the discoveries of other men who worked for centuries.
Demolishing the myth of the self-made man.
60. Progress occurs when all the constituent factors are ready, and then it is inevitable.
A deterministic vision of progress.
61. Don’t look for blame, but for solutions.
Looking for people to punish does not solve the problems.
62. Competition is the vanguard of business, always reducing costs.
In this context, creativity is used to achieve maximum productivity.
63. I don’t believe a man can leave his business. You should think about him during the day and dream about him at night.
The professional can observe us.
64. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it quickly becomes saturated with a good one.
Over time, good products can stifle the competition.
65. How come when I want a pair of hands they also bring me a human being.
Part of the dehumanization that the corporate world poses.
66. Physical exercise is nonsense. If you are good you don’t need it and if you are bad you can’t do it.
A game of concepts that many will find debatable.
67. Failure is sometimes more fruitful than success.
Something useful can be extracted from defeats.
68. The best motorist is the one who drives with imagination. Imagine that his family is with him in the car.
Creative ways to motivate yourself to do things well.
69. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the plane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Resistance does not have to prevent us from moving forward.
70. A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his exploits in it.
Those who can only talk about past events do not have much to contribute.
71. The story is more or less nonsense.
Distancing yourself from history helps you not feel subject to uncontrollable forces.
72. You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them its life. They don’t see that we must all rise together.
One of Henry Ford’s phrases that talk about the social fabric in which human beings live.
73. Whatever you have, you must use it or lose it.
We must take advantage of the potential of what we have at hand.
74. True progress is what makes technology available to everyone.
Technological advance can be democratizing.
75. Superficial men believe in luck and circumstances. The strong believe in causes and their effects.
Attributing what happens around us to something that occurs outside of our control hinders us.
76. Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes it greater, although sometimes it is difficult to realize that.
A conception of existence based on a chain of events experienced in the first person.
77. Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.
Conformity leads to stagnation.
78. The world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and afflictions we cause help us.
In everything bad there is the potential to learn from adversity.
79. It is evident that the people of the nation do not understand the monetary and banking system, because if they did, I believe there would be a revolution tomorrow morning.
About general ignorance about how the economy works.
80. A company absolutely dedicated to service will only have a concern about profits.
In the business environment there are many factors to take into account, and not all of them have to do with what is offered to the client.
