Henry Ford Quotes

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.

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.

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

Those who walk with God always reach their destination.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

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

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

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

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

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

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

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

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

The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

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

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

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

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

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.