Quotes By Henry Ford

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

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

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.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

History is more or less bunk.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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

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.

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

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

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

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

Any colour - so long as it's black.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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