Henry Ford Quotes

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

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't
you're right.

A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.

The most important history is the history we make today.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

True education is gained through the discipline of life. There

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right.

When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

success is 99% failure

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . I did not need it very bad.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

There is no such thing as no chance.

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

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

There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

in the beginning there was hardly any one who sensed that the automobile could be a large factor in industry. The

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

Change is not always progress ... A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

Working together is success.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

Whatever you resist will persist.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming..

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.