Quotes by Henry Ford

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

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

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

“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.”

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”

“Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“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.”

“The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“The greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.”

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

“The human race is divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'”

“The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.”

“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.”

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

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

“The only real test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.”

“The only thing worse than training your employees and losing them is not training them and keeping them.”

“The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.”

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”

“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

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

“There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”

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

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

“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”

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

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

“You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”