Henry Ford Quotes Links

Leadership trio get ready to march on to a new Frontline; Their office is packed with quotes from soundbite king Henry Ford. However, finds Kenny Kemp, there is much more method than madness in the forthright thinking of the three men behind the success that is Frontline

HENRY Ford knew all about sound bites. His pithy quotations that "history is more or less bunk" and that you could have a Model T automobile "any colour - so long as it's black" still crop up regularly. But the entrance wall of Frontline's office in Stirling has another Ford epithet: "Failure is

Publication: The Sunday Herald

Henry Ford was a fountain of famous quotes.

The famous remark about the Model T attributed to Henry Ford - You can have any color as long as it's black'' - is one of many famous Fordisms. Here are some others. * History is more or less bunk * Money is like an arm or leg: Use it or lose it * Everything can always be done faster and better *

Publication: Automotive News

Quotes about Henry Ford.(Brief Article)

``It will take a hundred years to tell whether he helped us or hurt us, but he certainly didn't leave us where he found us Will Rogers ``If it were possible to preserve alive, for the interests of history, one man from each century and country - not, of course, the best or wisest, but the one who

Publication: Automotive News

Henry was angry; partners had to get out; Legal battle with Dodge brothers started campaign by Ford family for total control of company.(Ford 100)

Henry Ford viewed his car company as an extension of himself. After all, it was he who had the idea for the car, he who gathered the people to make the machine, he who found suppliers to make components. The unprecedented success of the Model T was a sure sign that the person who owned 58 percent

Publication: Automotive News

Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries.(Book review)

Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries by Howard P. Segal. University of Massachusetts Press, 272 pp., $34.95. In his introduction, Segal quotes a 1984 New York Times headline that technology was spurring industrial decentralization. Not, he usefully reports, for the first time.

Publication: The Antioch Review

Dreamer, schemer couldn't agree.(Ford 100)(Henry Ford, Billy Durant)

Byline: Lindsay Chappell They call Henry Ford a wheeler-dealer. But Billy Durant took the cake on wheeling and dealing. Ford began making his millions at the same time that Durant, an ambitious stock speculator, discovered the wiles of automaking, buying a Flint, Mich., business called Buick

Publication: Automotive News