Henry Ford

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“History is more or less bunk.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I don’t know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don’t care. I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.”

“International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew: German-Jews, French-Jews, English-Jews, American-Jews … the Jew is the threat.”

“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.”

“So, while the people are indeed supreme over the written Constitution, the spiritual constitution is supreme over them. The French Revolutionists wrote constitutions too—every drunken writer among them tossed off a constitution. Where are they? All vanished. Why? Because they were not in harmony with the constitution of the universe. The power of the Constitution is not dependent on any Government, but on its inherent rightness and practicability.”

“I've never made a flight in an airplane, and I don't know that I'm particularly anxious to. I would, though, like to take a trip in a . Bring one out here some time, won't you, Doctor Eckener, and give me a ride?”

“The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.”

“Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.”

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

“What we need is some financial engineers.”

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

“The economic fundamental is labour. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men 's labour that makes the harvest what it is. That is the economic fundamental: every one of us is working with material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to us by Nature.”

“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.”

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.”

“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”

“I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one — and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.”

“The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is a serious question how they would regard the system under which they live, if they once knew what the initiated can do with it.”

“Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery. You might as well borrow 100,000 lathes as $100,000 if the trouble is inside your business. More lathes will not cure it; neither will more money. Only heavier doses of brains and thought and wise courage can cure. A business that misuses what it has will continue to misuse what it can get.”

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

“The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.”

“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.”

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

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

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Any colour - so long as it's black.”

“The only real security that a man can 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.”

“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”

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

“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.”

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

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

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

“History is more or less bunk.”

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

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

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

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

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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