Henry Ford Quotes

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

People under pressure don’t work better; they just work faster.

I don't like time off - I would prefer to act maybe 364 days a year.

I remember working with a guy named Andrew Braccia at Yahoo, and Yahoo was the company that bought Flickr. Everyone on his team was hard working and reliable, did what they said they were going to do, on top of everything, and seemed to be operating at this level of productivity and effectiveness that I found difficult to manage to.

A lot of coaches could ration out their time. They could delegate. They would make time for their family. But when I was coaching I would almost laugh at those guys. I knew we were working the extra hours to get an edge on them.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Work first, and then rest.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

Work hard, play hard.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

We work super hard to not have to work

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.