Quote #17
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
More from Henry Ford
- Before every minute of action, there should be an hour of thought.
- Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
- Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
- Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
- Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
- Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
- As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
- Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.