Quotes By Henry Ford

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

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.

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.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

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.

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

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.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

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

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

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

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

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

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

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.