Henry Ford - Business Quotes

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Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business that misuses what it has will continue to misuse what it can get.

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An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

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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.

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

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Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

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A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

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Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

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A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

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Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

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Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.

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