Quotes By Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

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

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.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

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.

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

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

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

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

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.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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

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

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

History is more or less bunk.

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

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

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

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

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

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.