Henry Ford Quotes

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

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

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

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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

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

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

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!

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

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.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

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

The more you think, the more time you have.

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

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

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

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

Whatever you resist will persist.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

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.

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

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

People are as happy as they choose to be.

The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

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.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

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.

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

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

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