Quotes from Henry Ford

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

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

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

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

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

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

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 can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.