Quotes from Henry Ford

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

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

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

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.

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

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

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

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

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

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

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. 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.