Henry Ford
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.Collection: Years
The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.Collection: Business
You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.Collection: Fate
Understand the difference between being at work and working.Collection: Differences
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Successful
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.Collection: Business
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.Collection: Inspiring
Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experienceCollection: Goal
Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.Collection: Doe
Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.Collection: War
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.Collection: Curiosity
Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purposeCollection: Roots
If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.Collection: Teamwork
Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.Collection: Worst Enemy
Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourselfCollection: Valuable
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to failCollection: Honest
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.Collection: People
The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.Collection: Men
The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.Collection: Easier
Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.Collection: Opportunity
The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.Collection: Way
Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke freeCollection: Encouragement
Sometimes you just don't like somebodyCollection: Sometimes
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.Collection: Science
Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.Collection: Doubt
One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.Collection: Thinking
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.Collection: Mean
Don't find the fault, find the remedyCollection: Faults
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.Collection: Men
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.Collection: Pride
People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.Collection: Inspiration
If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case.Collection: Thinking
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.Collection: Doe
Thinking is the hardest work we do.Collection: Thinking
Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only 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. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.Collection: Real
Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right.Collection: Thinking
The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.Collection: Difficulty
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.Collection: Inspiring
Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.Collection: Men
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.Collection: War
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many livesCollection: Thinking
The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.Collection: Married
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.Collection: Winning
I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.Collection: Yards
Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.Collection: Work
There is joy in work.Collection: Work