Frases célebres de Henry Ford
Frases sobre el éxito de Henry Ford
“El secreto de mi éxito está en pagar como si fuera pródigo y vender como si estuviera en quiebra.”
De Henry Ford
Fuente: Citado en Sarrias Martí, Luiggi. Dayketing: ¡Hoy es un gran día para vender más! Profit Editorial, 2011. ISBN 978-84-1533-020-2. p. 93.
De Henry Ford
Fuente: Citado en Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 124.
Frases de hombres de Henry Ford
“A ningún hombre debe obligársele a hacer el trabajo que puede hacer una máquina.”
De Henry Ford
Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 192.
Idioma_original: «I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of others men behing whom were centuries of work...progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable.»
De Henry Ford
Henry Ford Frases y Citas
Explicación sobre su fuente de inspiración para la cadena de montaje.
De Henry Ford
Henry Ford: Frases en inglés

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
Variante: Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
My Life and Work (1922)
“Money is only a tool in business.”
Fuente: My Life and Work (1922), p. 157
Contexto: 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.
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Fuente: As quoted in "My Philosophy of Industry" an interview of Ford by Fay Leone Faurote, The Forum, Vol. 79, No. 4 (April 1928), p. 481;
also in "Thinking Is Hardest Work, Therefore Few Engage in It", San Francisco Chronicle (13 April 1928), p. 25;
both articles are cited as the primary sources of other variants which later arose, in https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/04/05/so-few "Thinking Is the Hardest Work There Is, which Is the Probable Reason Why So Few Engage In It" in Quote Investigator (5 April 2016)
“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”
Fuente: My Life and Work (1922), p. 72. Chapter IV, : Remark about the Model T in 1909; this has often been paraphrased, e.g.: "You can have any color as long as it's black."
Henry Ford (1922). Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent. p. 323; as cited in: William A. Levinson, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther. The Expanded and Annotated My Life and Work: Henry Ford's Universal Code for World-Class Success. CRC Press, 2013. p. xxix
Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther (1930). Edison as I Know Him. Cosmopolitan Book Company. p. 15
Henry Ford, quoted in New York World, 1919, as cited in: Martin Allen (2002). Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies. p. 55-56
Fuente: The Dearborn Independent, February 1921
“The economic fundamental is labour.”
Fuente: My Life and Work (1922), p. 9
Contexto: The economic fundamental is labour. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men 's labour that makes the harvest what it is. That is the economic fundamental: every one of us is working with material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to us by Nature.
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
As quoted in International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (1951) by William S. Walsh
Attributed from posthumous publications
Variante: You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
“My best friend is one who brings out the best in me”
Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is the one who tends to bring out the best in you" (May 1914) Attributed to Henry Ford as early as 1948.
Misattributed
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
Patrick Vlaskovits, " Henry Ford, Innovation, and That “Faster Horse” Quote https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast," in Harvard Business Review, August 29, 2011.
Misattributed