Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Quotes

• 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.