Quotes By Henry Ford

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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.

History is more or less bunk.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Any colour - so long as it's black.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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