Most of you reading this in the USA probably own a car conceived, or produced outside of the USA. You don’t have to feel bad about that- the rest of the world caught the USA slipping on the very ideas they invented years ago. The ideas of the assembly line, and the industrial revolution were around long before Henry Ford, but like many of the most intriguing figures in history, he took the new ideas from his own time and repackaged them simply for public consumption.

As we watch the US automotive industry get reinvented, let’s take a moment to see what us app developers can learn from the past with a few Henry Ford quotes.

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. “

“Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. “

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

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own. “

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

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

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”