Quotes from Henry Ford

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself.

The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're probably right.

Whether you think you can or you can't you're right.

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.

There is no reason why a man who is willing to work should not be able to work and to receive the full value of his work. There is equally no reason why a man who can but will not work should not receive the full value of his services to the community. He should most certainly be permitted to take away from the community an equivalent of what he contributes to it. If he contributes nothing he should take away nothing. He should have the freedom of starvation. We

The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow. We

Whereas once it was the customer who favored the merchant by dealing with him, conditions changed until it was the merchant who favored the customer by selling to him. That is bad for business. Monopoly is bad for business. Profiteering

Non si può costruire una reputazione basata sull'intenzione di fare qualcosa.

Quer você ache que pode, quer ache que não pode, de um jeito ou de outro você está certo.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Perhaps no word is more overworked nowadays than the word "democracy," and those who shout loudest about it, I think, as a rule, want it least. I am always suspicious of men who speak glibly of democracy.

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It

If you always do what you always did - you'll always get what you always got.

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas.

The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.

The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

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

Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The

An able man is a man who can do things, and his ability to do things is dependent on what he has in him. What he has in him depends on what he started with and what he has done to increase and discipline it.

That is very much like asking: "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.