FAMOUS AND BEST HENRY FORDS QUOTES
1)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.”
2) ”You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
3) ”There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”
4) ”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.”
5) ”The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
6) ”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.”
7) ”Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
8) ”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.”
9) ”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.”
10) ”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.”
11) ”If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
12) ”Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
13) ”Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
14) ”Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
15) ”Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
| FEAR QUOTES | BELIEF QUOTES |
| CHANGE QUOTES | FAITH QUOTES |
| TEACHER QUOTES | MOVING ON QUOTES |
| BUSINESS QUOTES | FEELINGS QUOTES |
16) ”Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”
17) ”Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
18) ”When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
19) ”Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
20) ”Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
21) ”The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
22) ”Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.”
23) ”My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
24) ”If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
25) ”You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
26) ”Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
27) ”Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.”
28) ‘Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
29) ”Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.”
30) ”To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.”
31) ”I am looking for a lot of men who have and infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”
32) ”Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
33) ”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.”
34) ”Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out — they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.”
35) ”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.”
36) ”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.”
37) ”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.”
38) ”I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.”
39) ”An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”
40) ”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.”
41) ”You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”
42) ”Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.”
43) ”Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
44) ”Money doesn’t make us anyway it just unmasks us.”
45) ”everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
46) ”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.”
47) ”There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
48) ”Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”
49) ”A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
50) ”There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.”
51) ”If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
52) ”To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.”
53) ”A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
54) ”There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”
55) ”Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
56) ”I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”
57) ”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. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. 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.”
58) ”I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”
59) ”success is 99% failure.”
60) ”Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.”
61) ”It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”
62) ”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.”
63) ”Sometimes you just don’t like somebody.”
64) ”Experience is the thing of supreme value.”
65) ”That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.”
66) ”The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.”
67) ”If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.”
68) ”There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.”
69) ”Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting.”
70) ”An able man is a man who can do things, and his ability to do things is dependent on what he has in him. What he has in him depends on what he started with and what he has done to increase and discipline it.”
71) ”Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.”
72) ”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.”
73) ”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.”
74) ”We learn extra from our failures than from our successes.”
75) ”Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
76) ”Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don’t save every nickel. Invest in yourself.”
77) ”The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!”
78) ”Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re probably right.”
79) ”When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
80) ”I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”
81) ”The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.”
82) ”As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow. ”
83) ”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.”
84) ”I determined absolutely that never would I join a company in which finance came before the work or in which bankers or financiers had a part. And further that, if there were no way to get started in the kind of business that I thought could be managed in the interest of the public, then I simply would not get started at all. For my own short experience, together with what I saw going on around me, was quite enough proof that business as a mere money-making game was not worth giving much thought to and was distinctly no place for a man who wanted to accomplish anything. Also it did not seem to me to be the way to make money. I have yet to have it demonstrated that it is the way. For the only foundation of real business is service.”
85) ”Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.”
86) ”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.”
87) ”If you always do what you always did – you’ll always get what you always got.”
88) ”Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas.”
89) ”The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.”
90) ”I think it should not be otherwise in industry. The men are there to get the greatest possible amount of work done and to receive the highest possible pay. If each man were permitted to act in his own way, production would suffer and therefore pay would suffer. Any one who does not like to work in our way may always leave.”
91) ”Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.”
92) ”Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
93) ”The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.”
94) ”Every time you can so arrange that one man will do the work of two, you so add to the wealth of the country that there will be a new and better job for the man who is displaced.”
95) ”If you make what they need, and sell it at a price which makes possession a help and not a hardship, then you will do business as long as there is business to do. People buy what helps them just as naturally as they drink water.”
96) ”Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.”
97) There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which were causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct; business was departing from its old-time substantial soundness; a general letting down of standards was felt everywhere.”
98) ”It is easy to give; it is harder to make giving unnecessary.”
99) ”The natural thing to do is to work to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course”
100) ”Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.”
101) ”A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.”
102) ”Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.”
