Henry Ford

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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.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Finance
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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.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Best
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Men
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Success
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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Business
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Business
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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Leadership
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Work
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Intelligence
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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.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Business
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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.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Experience
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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.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Age
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Wisdom
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Work
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We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
- Henry Ford
Collection: History
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Time
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Motivational
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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Business
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Time
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The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Knowledge
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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Money
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History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford
Collection: History
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If there is any one 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.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Success
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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Business
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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.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Business
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Life
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Money
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Friendship
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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.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Great
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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Best
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Money
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Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Success
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Happiness
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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Leadership
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford
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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
- Henry Ford
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Henry Ford
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
- Henry Ford
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
- Henry Ford
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Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
- Henry Ford
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Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
- Henry Ford
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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.
- Henry Ford
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford
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A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
- Henry Ford
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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford
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Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
- Henry Ford
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As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
- Henry Ford
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Any colour - so long as it's black.
- Henry Ford
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford
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There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
- Henry Ford