https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:28:00 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/ford-henry/17590/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/17590/#respond Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:01:49 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=17590 There is no young man, no grown man, living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
“My Advice to Young Men” (1930) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/17590/feed/ 0 17590 https://wist.info/ford-henry/1469/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/1469/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1469 Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/1469/feed/ 0 1469 https://wist.info/ford-henry/1470/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/1470/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1470 Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/1470/feed/ 0 1470 https://wist.info/ford-henry/1471/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/1471/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1471 Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/1471/feed/ 0 1471 https://wist.info/ford-henry/4989/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/4989/#respond Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:21:40 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=4989 Well, I can’t prove it, but I can smell it.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/4989/feed/ 0 4989 https://wist.info/ford-henry/19664/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/19664/#respond Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:50:45 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=19664 If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/19664/feed/ 0 19664 https://wist.info/ford-henry/21908/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/21908/#respond Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:20:37 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=21908 You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/21908/feed/ 0 21908 https://wist.info/ford-henry/34825/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/34825/#respond Fri, 19 Aug 2016 01:20:35 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34825 Change is not always progress. […] A fever of newness has been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
Ford Ideals (1922) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/34825/feed/ 0 34825 https://wist.info/ford-henry/63911/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/63911/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:00:08 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=63911 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.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
My Life and Work, ch. 11 “Money and Goods” (1922) [with Samuel Crowther]
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/63911/feed/ 0 63911 https://wist.info/ford-henry/1468/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/1468/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1468 What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
Observer (London), Interview (16 Mar. 1930) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/1468/feed/ 0 1468 https://wist.info/ford-henry/20151/ https://wist.info/ford-henry/20151/#respond Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:00:19 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=20151 One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
Quoted in The American Magazine, vol. 131 (1941) ]]> https://wist.info/ford-henry/20151/feed/ 0 20151