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Henry John Heinz was a German-American entrepreneur who founded the H. J. Heinz Company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born in that city, the son of German immigrants from the Palatinate who came independently to the United States in the early 1840s. Heinz developed his business into a national company which made more than 60 food products; one of its first was tomato ketchup. He was influential for introducing high sanitary standards for food manufacturing. He also exercised a paternal relationship with his workers, providing health benefits, recreation facilities, and cultural amenities. His descendants carried on the business until fairly recently, selling their remaining holdings to the predecessor company of what is now Kraft Heinz. Heinz was the great-grandfather of former U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania.

✵ 11. October 1844 – 14. May 1919
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Famous Henry J. Heinz Quotes

“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”

Henry J. Heinz

Henry J. Heinz, cited in: John Woolf Jordan (1915). Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania. p. 38

“Make all you can honestly; save all you can prudently; give all you can wisely.”

Henry J. Heinz

Attributed to Henry J. Heinz in: James Burnley (1901), Millionaires and Kings of Enterprise: : The Marvellous Careers of Some Americans who by Pluck, Foresight, and Energy Have Made Themselves Masters in the Fields of Industry and Finance. p. 327

“It is neither capital nor labor but management that brings success, since management will attract capital, and capital can employ labor.”

Henry J. Heinz

Henry J. Heinz, cited in: John Woolf Jordan (1915). Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania. p. 38

“I feel very sad, as though I had not a friend in the world…. A man is nowhere without money…. People care little about you without money…. People talk terribly. We find that we have but few friends left … I feel sad and constantly worried. People as much as say we have money. It is hard to bear.”

Henry J. Heinz

Henry J. Heinz in his diary (1875), cited in: Robert C. Alberts (1973), The good provider: H. J. Heinz and his 57 varieties. p. 24

“A wide market awaited the manufacturer of food products who would set purity and quality above everything else in their preparation.”

Henry J. Heinz

Attributed to Henry J. Heinz in: J. N. Garfunkel (1910), The American Pure Food and Health Journal. Vol. 2 p. xxxviii

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