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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. -- Henry Ford
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking. -- Henry Ford
Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
The more you think, the more time you have. -- Henry Ford
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth. -- Henry Ford
That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It -- Henry Ford
Anybody can do anything that he imagines. -- Henry Ford
A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream. -- Henry Ford
Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself -- Henry Ford
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. -- Henry Ford
I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience. -- Henry Ford
I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job. -- Henry Ford
People are as happy as they choose to be. -- Henry Ford
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. -- Henry Ford
given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle. -- Henry Ford
Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character. -- Henry Ford
If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct ... It's the thinking that makes it so. -- Henry Ford
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. -- Henry Ford
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 dam is the history we made today. -- Henry Ford
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. -- Henry Ford
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. -- Henry Ford
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all. -- Henry Ford
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol. -- Henry Ford
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. -- Henry Ford
The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money. -- Henry Ford
Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time. -- Henry Ford
Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end. -- Henry Ford
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer. -- Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do. -- Henry Ford
When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
Experience is the thing of supreme value". -- Henry Ford
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance. -- Henry Ford
When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future. -- Henry Ford
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured. -- Henry Ford
Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free -- Henry Ford
The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it. -- Henry Ford
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. -- Henry Ford
We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way. -- Henry Ford
Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old. -- Henry Ford
Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal. -- Henry Ford
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change. -- Henry Ford
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. -- Henry Ford
Who stops learning may be old. -- Henry Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. -- Henry Ford
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. -- Henry Ford
We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it. -- Henry Ford
Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled - he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there. -- Henry Ford
If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want. -- Henry Ford
The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it. -- Henry Ford
A nation that knows how to work will never suffer. -- Henry Ford
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end. -- Henry Ford
A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us. -- Henry Ford
You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over. -- Henry Ford
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian. -- Henry Ford
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure. -- Henry Ford
The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few. -- Henry Ford
Those who walk with God, always reach their destination. -- Henry Ford
The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right. -- Henry Ford
There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right . -- Henry Ford
in the beginning there was hardly any one who sensed that the automobile could be a large factor in industry. The -- Henry Ford
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time. -- Henry Ford
The object of living is work, experience, happiness. -- Henry Ford
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail -- Henry Ford
The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid -- Henry Ford
When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ... -- Henry Ford
History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford
I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible. -- Henry Ford
The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on. -- Henry Ford
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. -- Henry Ford
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. -- Henry Ford
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. -- Henry Ford
There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage. -- Henry Ford
The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet. -- Henry Ford
I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard. I always am certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough. But it was a very great thing to have my wife even more confident than I was. She has always been that way. -- Henry Ford
In March, 1902, I resigned, determined never again to put myself under orders. The Detroit Automobile Company later became the Cadillac Company under the ownership of the Lelands, who -- Henry Ford
Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally. -- Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. -- Henry Ford
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible. -- Henry Ford
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned. -- Henry Ford
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. -- Henry Ford
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. -- Henry Ford
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off. -- Henry Ford
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. -- Henry Ford
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. -- Henry Ford
Et if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos. -- Henry Ford
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them. -- Henry Ford
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired. -- Henry Ford
People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized. -- Henry Ford
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power. -- Henry Ford
Working together is success. -- Henry Ford
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. -- Henry Ford
Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking -- Henry Ford
Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity. -- Henry Ford
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service. -- Henry Ford
Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity - not simply for ourselves but for others - the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be. -- Henry Ford
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing. -- Henry Ford
All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. -- Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. -- Henry Ford
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year. -- Henry Ford
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. -- Henry Ford
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman. -- Henry Ford
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. -- Henry Ford
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing. -- Henry Ford
Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business -- Henry Ford
As we serve our jobs we serve the world. -- Henry Ford
It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression. -- Henry Ford
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life. -- Henry Ford
True education is gained through the discipline of life. There -- Henry Ford
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. -- Henry Ford
Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right. -- Henry Ford
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. -- Henry Ford
To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition -- Henry Ford
Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy. -- Henry Ford
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time. -- Henry Ford
There is joy in work. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed. -- Henry Ford
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage. -- Henry Ford
Change is not always progress ... A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress. -- Henry Ford
Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home! -- Henry Ford
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. -- Henry Ford
If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of. -- Henry Ford
Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking. -- Henry Ford
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need? -- Henry Ford
He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct. -- Henry Ford
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler. -- Henry Ford
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. -- Henry Ford
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community. -- Henry Ford
Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls. -- Henry Ford
We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down. -- Henry Ford
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work. -- Henry Ford
Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount. -- Henry Ford
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it. -- Henry Ford
Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life. -- Henry Ford
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it. -- Henry Ford
No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things. -- Henry Ford
If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear. -- Henry Ford
Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information. -- Henry Ford
Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it. -- Henry Ford
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man. -- Henry Ford
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust
almost anything, -- Henry Ford
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. -- Henry Ford
Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction. -- Henry Ford
Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it. -- Henry Ford
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others. -- Henry Ford
No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again. -- Henry Ford
There is no such thing as no chance. -- Henry Ford
Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war. -- Henry Ford
Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls. -- Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs -- Henry Ford
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity. -- Henry Ford
Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best -- Henry Ford
Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery. -- Henry Ford
The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead. -- Henry Ford
Political parties are like poets, born, not made. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do. -- Henry Ford
It is probably true that the commonest real cause of anti-semitism is the action of the international Jew who is often unknown and always secure, but innocent victim of it is the poor Jew. -- Henry Ford
Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The -- Henry Ford
Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best. -- Henry Ford
Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right. -- Henry Ford
We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table. -- Henry Ford
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him. -- Henry Ford
If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work. -- Henry Ford
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited. -- Henry Ford
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going,
always going, no matter what happens, there is no
certainty of success. It is really an endurance race. -- Henry Ford
The most important history is the history we make today. -- Henry Ford
To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child. -- Henry Ford
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then. -- Henry Ford
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it. -- Henry Ford
Whether you believe you can or not, you're right. -- Henry Ford
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago. -- Henry Ford
It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. -- Henry Ford
In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales. -- Henry Ford
Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence. -- Henry Ford
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. -- Henry Ford
One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it. -- Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. -- Henry Ford
People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is. -- Henry Ford
America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers. -- Henry Ford
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. -- Henry Ford
If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten -- Henry Ford
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems. -- Henry Ford
Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid. -- Henry Ford
That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone - not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth. -- Henry Ford
Understand the difference between being at work and working. -- Henry Ford
Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right. -- Henry Ford
Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us. -- Henry Ford
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy. -- Henry Ford
If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary. -- Henry Ford
Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another. -- Henry Ford
How soon will Ford blow up? Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious. -- Henry Ford
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it. -- Henry Ford
The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action. -- Henry Ford
I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . I did not need it very bad. -- Henry Ford
History's just one darn thing after another. -- Henry Ford
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living. -- Henry Ford
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt. -- Henry Ford
Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness. -- Henry Ford
Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service - for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right - then money abundantly takes care of itself. -- Henry Ford
Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business. -- Henry Ford
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test. -- Henry Ford
Whereas once it was the customer who favored the merchant by dealing with him, conditions changed until it was the merchant who favored the customer by selling to him. That is bad for business. Monopoly is bad for business. Profiteering -- Henry Ford
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again. -- Henry Ford
Failure is the chance to do it better next time. -- Henry Ford
The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much. -- Henry Ford
The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion. -- Henry Ford
Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary. -- Henry Ford
Vision without execution is just hallucination. -- Henry Ford
Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it. -- Henry Ford
An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things. -- Henry Ford
There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter. -- Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. -- Henry Ford
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them. -- Henry Ford
If you don't think of the future, you won't have one. -- Henry Ford
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. -- Henry Ford
A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business -- Henry Ford
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things. -- Henry Ford
It ought to be the employer's ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman's ambition to make it possible -- Henry Ford
Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything. -- Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. -- Henry Ford
The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts -- Henry Ford
A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders. -- Henry Ford
There's no such thing as no chance. -- Henry Ford
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. -- Henry Ford
The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity. -- Henry Ford
Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business. -- Henry Ford
The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford. -- Henry Ford
The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity. -- Henry Ford
There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success. -- Henry Ford
The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all. -- Henry Ford
Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves. -- Henry Ford
There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose. -- Henry Ford
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. -- Henry Ford
Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry. -- Henry Ford
Every experience is worth having. -- Henry Ford
Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear. -- Henry Ford
I'll sleep well tonight -- Henry Ford
If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years. -- Henry Ford
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. -- Henry Ford
Every success is the mother of countless others. -- Henry Ford
Too many men are afraid of being fools. -- Henry Ford
Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it. -- Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford
Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. -- Henry Ford
When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here. -- Henry Ford
A low wage business is always insecure. -- Henry Ford
success is 99% failure -- Henry Ford
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work. -- Henry Ford
The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized. -- Henry Ford
Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article. -- Henry Ford
Sometimes you just don't like somebody -- Henry Ford
Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose -- Henry Ford
A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought. -- Henry Ford
We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us. -- Henry Ford
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions. -- Henry Ford
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are . -- Henry Ford
I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny. -- Henry Ford
If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability -- Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. -- Henry Ford
The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy -- Henry Ford
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. -- Henry Ford
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind. -- Henry Ford
One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be. -- Henry Ford
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice -- Henry Ford
Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime. -- Henry Ford
Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live. -- Henry Ford
To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something -- Henry Ford
I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world. -- Henry Ford
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. -- Henry Ford
Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is. -- Henry Ford
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields? -- Henry Ford
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only more intelligently. -- Henry Ford
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. -- Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. -- Henry Ford
Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right. -- Henry Ford
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. -- Henry Ford
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is. -- Henry Ford
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men. -- Henry Ford
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor. -- Henry Ford
Every object tells a story if you know how to read it. -- Henry Ford
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. -- Henry Ford
There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years. -- Henry Ford
Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right. -- Henry Ford
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
You can get it in any color, as long as it is black -- Henry Ford
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. -- Henry Ford
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford
The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things. -- Henry Ford
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. -- Henry Ford
Jews have always controlled the business ... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada ... is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind. -- Henry Ford
Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral. -- Henry Ford
A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders. -- Henry Ford
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. -- Henry Ford
If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation. -- Henry Ford
An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation. -- Henry Ford
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed. -- Henry Ford
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers. -- Henry Ford
Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value. -- Henry Ford
When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat. -- Henry Ford
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. -- Henry Ford
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail. -- 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. -- Henry Ford
The natural thing to do is to work - to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. -- Henry Ford
Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages. -- Henry Ford
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -- Henry Ford
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away. -- Henry Ford
The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman. -- Henry Ford
If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case. -- Henry Ford
There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right! -- Henry Ford
This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money. -- Henry Ford
Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.. -- Henry Ford
The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others. -- Henry Ford
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer, -- Henry Ford
Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving. -- Henry Ford
There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing. -- Henry Ford
It is always possible to do a thing better the second time. -- Henry Ford
The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost. -- Henry Ford
It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail. -- Henry Ford
Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet . -- Henry Ford
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives -- Henry Ford
Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it. -- Henry Ford
Reading musses up my mind. -- Henry Ford
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself -- Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. -- Henry Ford
If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute. -- Henry Ford
Don't find the fault, find the remedy -- Henry Ford
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. -- Henry Ford
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
Whatever you resist will persist. -- Henry Ford
Speculation into thing already produced that is not business -- Henry Ford
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. -- Henry Ford
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon. -- Henry Ford
2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man - criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man - to rule by force instead of by intelligence. -- Henry Ford
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness. -- Henry Ford
No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future. -- Henry Ford
Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains - do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited. -- Henry Ford
The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. -- Henry Ford
The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you? -- Henry Ford
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry. -- Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work we do. -- Henry Ford
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose. -- Henry Ford
Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king. -- Henry Ford
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals. -- Henry Ford
The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody. -- Henry Ford
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures. -- Henry Ford
I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means. -- Henry Ford
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully. -- Henry Ford
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. -- Henry Ford
Any colour - so long as it's black. -- Henry Ford
Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience -- Henry Ford
A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded. -- Henry Ford
Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't, you are correct. -- Henry Ford
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine. -- Henry Ford
It is the customer that pays the wages -- Henry Ford
Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. -- Henry Ford
Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do. -- Henry Ford
The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do. -- Henry Ford
For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine. -- Henry Ford
The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts. -- Henry Ford
I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard. -- Henry Ford
If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. -- Henry Ford
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence. -- Henry Ford
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain -- Henry Ford
The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money. -- Henry Ford
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. -- Henry Ford
Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky. -- Henry Ford
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he? -- Henry Ford
You don't have to hold a position to be a leader. -- Henry Ford
As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow -- Henry Ford
When bankers get into business they usually destroy it. -- Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. -- Henry Ford
Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more. -- Henry Ford
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. -- Henry Ford
I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind. -- Henry Ford
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success. -- Henry Ford
Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right. -- Henry Ford
The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip. -- Henry Ford
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't
you're right. -- Henry Ford
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form. -- Henry Ford
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste -- Henry Ford
Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease. -- Henry Ford
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. -- Henry Ford
Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right -- Henry Ford
You can have any color you want, as long as it's black -- Henry Ford
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford
