Henry Ford

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent but with the wisdom used in spending it.

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.

You can have any colour as long as its black.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free.

There is no such thing as no chance.

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

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

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

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.

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

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

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

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

Thinking is the hardest work there is which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Whether you think you can or think you can't “ you are right.

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

A handful of men have become very rich by paying attention to details that most others ignored.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.

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

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

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

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

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.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

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.

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

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

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

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

You cant learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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

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

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

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

Whether you think you can or think you cant you are right.

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

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.

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

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do.

Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others and so they know more.

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.

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they cant are both 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.

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

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

The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

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

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

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

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

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

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.

Coming together is a beginning staying together is progress and working together is success.

If there is any one secret of success it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

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

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

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.

If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.

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 worlds ills will be cured.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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

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.

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

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Failure is just a resting place. It is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

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.

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

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

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't.

Whether you think you can or you think you cant youre right.

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

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

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesnt 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.

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

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

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

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

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.

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.

Coming together is a beginning Keeping together is progress Working together is success

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.

The more you think, the more time you have.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

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

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

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