English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Henry Ford Quotes

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to biuld an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

Henry Ford

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Confucius quote: "A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that..."
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? Confucius
Anne Rice quote: "Let the flesh instruct the mind."
Let the flesh instruct the mind. Anne Rice
Deana Carter quote: "I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on..."
I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted. Deana Carter
Michael Porter quote: "If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as..."
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful. Michael Porter
Richard M. Nixon quote: "It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you..."
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. Richard M. Nixon
If a memory wasn't a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the brain told you now about what it claimed had happened then would be coloured by what had happened in between. It was like a country remembering its history: the past was never just the past, it was what made the present able to live with itself. Julian Barnes
Tina Brown quote: "To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep..."
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. Tina Brown
Dale Carnegie quote: "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade."
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Dale Carnegie
Victoria Principal quote: "I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but..."
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men. Victoria Principal
...which so incorruptibly reduced a reality to its color content that it resumed a new existence in a beyond of color, without any previous memories. Rainer Maria Rilke
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. Kit Williams
Jock Sturges quote: "I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and..."
I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being. Jock Sturges
Christina Aguilera quote: "The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits."
The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits. Christina Aguilera
You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn’t know you could steal your own life. And I didn’t know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn’t mine. It never has been. Cormac McCarthy
In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. Cynthia Nixon