The founder of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles. This guide belongs to 100 Ways To Be Being Remarkable Series, a special project that brings you business and self-development advice from The Success Manual.


Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

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

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

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.

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

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

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

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

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

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.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

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

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

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

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

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

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.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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