Henry Ford
One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.Collection: Successful
There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.Collection: Opportunity
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.Collection: Running
There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.Collection: Purpose
It is the customer that pays the wagesCollection: Pay
Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.Collection: Stories
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.Collection: Waiting
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.Collection: Inspirational
There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.Collection: Way
Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.Collection: Kings
Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.Collection: Mind
It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.Collection: Thinking
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.Collection: Customers
There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.Collection: Jobs
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.Collection: Thinking
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.Collection: Disappointment
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.Collection: Wisdom
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.Collection: Men
What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through powerCollection: Lying
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.Collection: Age
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 navyCollection: Country
Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.Collection: Brain
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.Collection: Inspirational
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.Collection: Book
I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.Collection: Book
I will build a car for the great multitude.Collection: Car
As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege growCollection: Long
We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.Collection: Preparation
Experience is the thing of supreme value".Collection: Supreme
Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.Collection: Opportunity
All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.Collection: Motivational
Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.Collection: Doe
People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.Collection: People
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.Collection: Hands
There is no such thing as no chance.Collection: Positive
Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.Collection: Men
No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.Collection: Teacher
The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paidCollection: Boss
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.Collection: Mind
Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.Collection: Morning
An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.Collection: Thinking
Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.Collection: Money
Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.Collection: Work
Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.Collection: Machinery
The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.Collection: Men
Failure is the chance to do it better next time.Collection: Next
In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.Collection: Business
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?Collection: Teamwork
The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.Collection: Looks