"My Customers Would Have Asked For a Faster Horse"

This post is a follow-up to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747106. The author of http://quoteinvestigator.com does a really good job of tracking these things down.

Even if Henry Ford did say that, it's still an if.

i.e. Henry Ford did NOT ask his customers, at best he guessed at what they might respond.

I wrote about this here: http://contrast.ie/blog/faster-horses (Which was previously picked up by HN)