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!
Henry FordWealth 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.
Henry FordThere are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.
Henry FordBe ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Henry FordWe have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.
Henry FordThe thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.
Henry FordSurgery 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.
Henry FordBusiness 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.
Henry FordYou take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
Henry FordThe hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.
Henry FordOld 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.
Henry FordAn educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
Henry FordLife 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.
Henry FordOne of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.
Henry FordThere are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .
Henry FordNew 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.
Henry FordLife is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
Henry FordThe two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.
Henry FordLabor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.
Henry FordYou can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
Henry FordOne 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.
Henry FordEconomy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
Henry FordThe only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.
Henry FordThe one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.
Henry Ford