Model T Quotes

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

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 - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

I will build a car for the great multitude.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

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.

On "[Total] Recall" also [sets were extraordinary], but this was next-level. They built two or three blocks of midtown Manhattan in 1926 and it was inhabited with 400 extras and 24 Model Ts and a train system and all that kind of nonsense. It was madness. You would walk into shops and they would have the goods from that period, it was just huge.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

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.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.