Henry Ford Quotes

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

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.

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

Every success is the mother of countless others.

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

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

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.

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

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

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.

Old 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.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

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

Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

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

No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

If it is 'anti-Semitism' to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish.

There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going,always going, no matter what happens, there is nocertainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

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

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

I'll sleep well tonight

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

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

The most important history is the history we make today.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

The 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.

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.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done

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.

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

If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

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

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

There 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.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

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.

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.

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

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.

The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.