Top 431 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Ford - Page 3

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

Every experience is worth having.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

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.

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.

An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

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.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

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

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

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.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

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

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

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.

The more you think, the more time you have.

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

To live a great life, you must believe in yourself. Let these quotes help you to create a mindset for believing in yourself... Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

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.

Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

The only true 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.

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

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.

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

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.

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.

The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job... Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

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.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.