Henry Ford

“Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging, but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.” ~ Henry Ford

“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.” ~ Henry Ford

“The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.” ~ Henry Ford

“Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.” ~ Henry Ford

“When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.” ~ Henry Ford

“The difficulty is not in finding men to advance but men willing to be advanced.” ~ Henry Ford

“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.” ~ Henry Ford

“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.” ~ Henry Ford

“In teaching the children at Greenfield Village, we are trying to get back some of the solid McGuffey qualities.” ~ Henry Ford

“Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.” ~ Henry Ford

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” ~ Henry Ford

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.” ~ Henry Ford

“The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.” ~ Henry Ford

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.” ~ Henry Ford

“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.” ~ Henry Ford

“I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.” ~ Henry Ford

“As betting at the race ring adds neither strength nor speed to the horse, so the exchange of shares in the stock market adds no capital to business, no increase in the production and no purchasing power to the market.” ~ Henry Ford

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” ~ Henry Ford

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” ~ Henry Ford

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” ~ Henry Ford

“You are the master of your fate, the captain of your soul.” ~ Henry Ford

“Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song—it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.” ~ Henry Ford

“A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.” ~ Henry Ford

“Vision without execution is just hallucination.” ~ Henry Ford

“The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.” ~ Henry Ford

“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.” ~ Henry Ford

“Every success is the mother of countless others.” ~ Henry Ford

“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” ~ Henry Ford

“That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.” ~ Henry Ford

“War is not a matter for the professional pacifist or militarist. It is for the unprofessional people. They finance and fight it, they bear its losses. Therefore, they should have the deciding voice concerning it.” ~ Henry Ford

“Speculation into thing already produced that is not business.” ~ Henry Ford

“Experience is the thing of supreme value.” ~ Henry Ford

“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.” ~ Henry Ford

“We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.” ~ Henry Ford

“Getting permanent value out of a job means purpose and fitting means to ends.” ~ Henry Ford

“If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent them from getting what they want.” ~ Henry Ford

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.” ~ Henry Ford

“Success is 99% failure.” ~ Henry Ford

“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.” ~ Henry Ford

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” ~ Henry Ford

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” ~ Henry Ford

“I believe in 100% theory and 100% practice. Theory without practical application is futile.” ~ Henry Ford

“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

“Believe in the best. Have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best.” ~ Henry Ford

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” ~ Henry Ford

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford

“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.” ~ Henry Ford

“Anybody can do anything that he imagines.” ~ Henry Ford

“Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.” ~ Henry Ford

“Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.” ~ Henry Ford

“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.” ~ Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” ~ Henry Ford

“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.” ~ Henry Ford

“Teach children not to be gullible.” ~ Henry Ford

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” ~ Henry Ford

“Everything can always be done better than it is being done.” ~ Henry Ford

“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.” ~ Henry Ford

“Money doesn’t make us anyway, it just unmasks us.” ~ Henry Ford

“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.” ~ Henry Ford

“When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.” ~ Henry Ford

“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

“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

“Education not just preparation for life, but part of life itself—a continuous art.” ~ Henry Ford

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” ~ Henry Ford

“Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it.” ~ Henry Ford

“Our modern industrialism changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.” ~ Henry Ford

“Money is like an arm or leg—use it or lose it.” ~ Henry Ford

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.” ~ Henry Ford

“No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.” ~ Henry Ford

“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” ~ Henry Ford

“To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.” ~ Henry Ford

“Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.” ~ Henry Ford

“Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.” ~ Henry Ford

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ~ Henry Ford

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” ~ Henry Ford

“Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.” ~ Henry Ford

“We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.” ~ Henry Ford

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” ~ Henry Ford

“As we serve our jobs we serve the world.” ~ Henry Ford

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford

“An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot but knows how to do a lot of things.” ~ Henry Ford

“Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.” ~ Henry Ford

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” ~ Henry Ford

“What is life but education, anyway?” ~ Henry Ford

“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

“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.” ~ Henry Ford

“That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But, there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.” ~ Henry Ford

“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

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” ~ Henry Ford

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” ~ Henry Ford

“It broke down the barriers of distance in rural sections, brought people of these sections closer together, and placed education within the reach of everyone.” ~ Henry Ford

“There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.” ~ Henry Ford

“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.” ~ 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.” ~ Henry Ford

“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.” ~ Henry Ford

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ~ Henry Ford

“An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be success. Success is a first-hand creation.” ~ Henry Ford

“There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.” ~ Henry Ford

“Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.” ~ Henry Ford

“There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” ~ Henry Ford

“Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.” ~ Henry Ford

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ~ Henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ~ Henry Ford

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.” ~ Henry Ford

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” ~ Henry Ford

“To do more for the world than the world does for you—that is success.” ~ Henry Ford

“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow.” ~ Henry Ford

“To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.” ~ Henry Ford

“The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.” ~ Henry Ford

“Profits made out of the distress of the people are always much smaller than profits made out of the most lavish service of the people at the lowest prices that competent management can make possible.” ~ Henry Ford