Makeba Smith > Makeba's Quotes

“When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....”
― Henry Ford

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
― Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
― Henry Ford

“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.”
― Henry Ford

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
― Henry Ford

“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
― Henry Ford

“Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.”
― Henry Ford

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
― Henry Ford

“everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
― Henry Ford

“Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.”
― Henry Ford

“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.”
― Henry Ford

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
― Henry Ford