Henry Ford quotes:

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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

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.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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.

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

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

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.

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

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

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

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

Any colour - so long as it's black.

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

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

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

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

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.

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.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

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

When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

History is more or less bunk.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

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

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.

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

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

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.

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

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

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

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

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

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

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.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Reading musses up my mind.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

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.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

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.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty Orientalism which had insidiously affected every channel of expression...The fact that these influences are all traceable to one racial source [Judaism] is something to be reckoned with...Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are sapping the moral stamina of the people.

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

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

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

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

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

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it

Asking who ought to be the boss is like asking who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs

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.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

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

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,

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

When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.

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

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.

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.