Quotes By Henry Ford

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

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.

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

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.