Quotes About Innovation

Don't find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

History is more or less bunk.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build 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.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one...

I am looking for a lot of men who have and infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only more intelligently.

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

How soon will Ford blow up?" Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.

Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.