Henry Ford Quotes

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No, I have no desire to know what, or who I was once; or what, or who, I shall be in the ages to come. This belief in immortality makes present living the more attractive. It gives you all the time there is. You will always be able to finish what you start. There is no fever or strain in such an outlook. We are here in life for one purpose: to get experience. We are all getting it, and we shall all use it somewhere.

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

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

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

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

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

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.

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.

Working together is success.

Every experience is worth having.

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

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

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

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

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

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

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .

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.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

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

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

There is joy in work.

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

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

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

Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.

The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

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.

Sometimes you just don't like somebody

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

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.

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.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

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

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

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

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

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.