Henry Ford
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.Collection: Men
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.Collection: Life
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.Collection: Levels
A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.Collection: Men
Reading musses up my mind.Collection: Reading
When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.Collection: Spring
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.Collection: Men
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.Collection: Real
I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.Collection: Mean
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.Collection: War
I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.Collection: Inspiring
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.Collection: Effort
A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.Collection: Organization
Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.Collection: Makers
Minicars produce miniprofits.Collection: Marketing
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.Collection: Men
America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.Collection: Successful
People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.Collection: Men
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.Collection: Economy
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.Collection: Country
Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.Collection: Thinking
If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and abilityCollection: Independent
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.Collection: Running
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.Collection: Mean
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.Collection: Color
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.Collection: Race
Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.Collection: Past
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.Collection: Men
Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Collection: Failure
Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.Collection: Inspirational Entrepreneurship
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Hope
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.Collection: Motivational
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.Collection: Inspirational Entrepreneurship
Those who walk with God, always reach their destination.Collection: Destination
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.Collection: Relationship
Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world’s failures.Collection: Luck
Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity – not simply for ourselves but for others – the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.Collection: Country
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 navy.Collection: Country
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one’s country and its people.Collection: Country
A man’s real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.Collection: Real
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
I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.Collection: Book
You can’t tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don’t mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don’t leave anything over.Collection: Country
When you get a whole country – as did ours – thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.Collection: Country
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
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.Collection: Country
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more – as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.Collection: Real