Henry Ford Quotes

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

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.

If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.

Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

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.

Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right.

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.

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

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

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.

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

The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on.

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.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

The most important history is the history we make today.

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

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

Those who walk with God always reach their destination.

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.

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.

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 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.

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

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 color that he wants so long as it is black.