Quotes from Henry Ford

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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

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

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

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

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

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

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

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

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

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

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

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

success is 99% failure

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.