Top 431 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Ford - Page 2

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

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.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

If it doesn't add value, it's waste.

Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

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.

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.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

Those who walk with God always reach their destination.

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.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

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

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.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .

If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.

Whatever you resist will persist.

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

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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.

There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.

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

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.

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.

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

success is 99% failure

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.

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

People are as happy as they choose to be.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.