Henry Ford Quotes

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

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

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right."

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

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

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

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

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

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

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this."

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

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars."

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is."

"The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty are not worth much."

"Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount."

"Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn."

"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."

"Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything."

"I will build a motor car for the great multitude."

"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."

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

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

"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."

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

"Whatever you have, you must either use or lose."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"The only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."

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

"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

"Nature never breaks her own laws."

"Nothing is especially hard if you divide it into small jobs."

"Money is like an arm or leg—use it or lose it."

"The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance."

"Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work."

"Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world."

"No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself."

"Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity."

"I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny."

"We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet."

"As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for."

"The basis of peace should be a world federation."

"People will try to fix world but world will fix people."

"The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own."

"Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value."

"That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us."

"Faith is one of the most effective tools in the human equipment. I believe that faith works."

"A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them."

"Teach children not to be gullible."

"A nation that knows how to work will never suffer."

"Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before."

"I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth, but wealth as a means, not as an end."

"One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be."

"The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford."

"I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together."

"I will build a motor car for the great multitude, constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise."

"What we call an ideal is simply the thing we most desire."