16 Henry Ford Quotes on Business

Henry Ford quotes on business

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

7. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

8. When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

11. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

17. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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

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

31. If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse.

33. If there is any one secret of success, ... it lies in the ability in the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

36. It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

48. Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

49. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

51. 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.

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

59. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.