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Mechanikerlehrling, Unternehmer, konstruierte 1892 seinen ersten Motorwagen, gründete am 16. 06. 1903 gemeinsam mit 11 Investoren die "Ford Motor Company" und am 08. 03. 1911 die "Ford Motor Company England" (USA, 1863 - 1947).

Henry Ford · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Henry Ford wäre heute 161 Jahre, 8 Monate, 3 Tage oder 59.051 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.07.1863 in Dearborn/Michigan
Gestorben am 07.04.1947 in Detroit
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

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• One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

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• One's own employees should be one's best customers.

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• Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

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• Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.

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• The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

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• The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

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• The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

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• The great trouble today is that there are too many people looking for someone else to do something for them. The solution of most of our troubles is to be found in everyone doing something for himself.

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• The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

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• The notion that tipping is optional and the amount discretionary is as quaint as the soul who might try it. Short of being angered to the point of fisticuffs or other forms of mayhem, if you last in a restaurant long enough to get the check, the basic rules are simple: Fifteen percent of the bill for the waiter; another 5% of the bill for the captain, in the places where he makes the salad and generally works at the job; one dollar per bottle for the wine steward; and/or a buck for the barteneder if he had made several drinks. ( And don't think) you can walk out without tipping if you have been dissatisfied . . . Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

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• The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

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• The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

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• There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

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• There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

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• Thinking is the hardest work there is-which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

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

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• Too many of us, when we accomplish what we set out to do, exclaim, "See what I have done!" instead of saying, "See where I have been led."

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• We have always found that, if our principles were right, the area over which they were applied did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

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