Henry Ford

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're right.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

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.

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

People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.

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

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

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

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. So what is there to worry about.

Life is a series of experiences, each one 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.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.

Reading musses up my mind.

History is bunk.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. 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 made today.

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!

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

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

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

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

History is more or less bunk.

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

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

If I would have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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