Quotes By Henry Ford

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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

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.