Quotes By Henry Ford

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.