Henry Ford Quotes

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

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

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

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

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

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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

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

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

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

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

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

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.

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.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege, we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Don’t find fault find remedy anybody can complain.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Early businesses failed and left him broke five times before he founded the successful ford motor company.

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.

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

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

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

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

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?

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.

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

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.

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

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

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

It is not the employer who pays the wages. The employer only handles the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Never complain. Never explain.

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.

Playing good wages is not charity at all – it is the best kind of business.

Some men may succeed because they are destined to, but most men succeed because they are determined to.

The greatest things in life are experience even mistakes have value.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The key to success is to understand one’s destiny and do it.

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

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

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

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

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

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

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam in the history we make today.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.

You may think the grass is greener on the other side. But if you take the time to water your own grass, it would be just as green.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

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

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.

Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .

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

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.

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

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.

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

The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.

If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

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

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

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

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

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

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

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.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.