Henry Ford
American industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company, 1863-1947
40 quotes.
Quotes by Henry Ford
- A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.
- Age 80. — Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.
- Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Before everything else getting ready is the secret of success.
- Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
- Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
- Don't find fault; find a remedy.
- Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
- Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.
- I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities.
- If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
- If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.
- Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .
- It’s been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
- Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
- Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Nothing can remain static. Things are either moving forward or moving backward.
- Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs.
- One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
- Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.
- The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right.
- The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
- The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.
- The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.
- There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
- Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.
- Thinking is the hardest work any one can do—which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.
- Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
- To do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.
- When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.
- You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
- You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
- If you think you can or if you think you can't - you are right.
- Whether you think you can or you think you can't you are right.