Henry Ford Quotes

“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.”

“Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.”

“Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.”

“A low wage business is always insecure.”

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

“The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.”

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

“A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.”

“The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.”

“Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.”

“A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.”

“I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.”

“If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability”

“Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.”

“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail”

“Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.”

“The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.”

“Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.”

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

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

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

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

“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!”

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

“The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy”