Henry Ford Quotes

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

The term 'innovative' or 'innovation' is often vague or ambiguous. But in our definition, innovation means to make something which people think impossible possible.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!