Henry Ford Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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.

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

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