Quotes from Henry Ford

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

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

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.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

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

success is 99% failure

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

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

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

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

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

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

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

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

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.

everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

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

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one...

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