Henry Ford Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

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

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

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

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

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"Any colour - so long as it's black."

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

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