Quotes By Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

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.