Henry Ford Quotes

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


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

3. 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.

4. 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.


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

6. Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

8. 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.


9. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

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

11. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.




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


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

14. 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.

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


16. 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.

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

18. 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.




19. It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

20. 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.


21. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

22. 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.

23. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

24. 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.

25. Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

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

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




28. You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

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

30. 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.



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

32. Any color - so long as it's black.

33. A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

34. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

35. 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.

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

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



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


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

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

41. What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.




42. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

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

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

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

46. 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.

47. There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

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

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



50. Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

51. Vision without execution is just hallucination.

52. 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.


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

54. 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.

55. The question: "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking: "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.





56. 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 dam is the history we made today.

57. Reading musses up my mind.

58. Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.

59. When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

60. If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

61. 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 the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.



62. When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

63. The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.



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