Henry Ford Quotes

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

Every experience is worth having.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Profits are the ultimate measure of how efficiently we provide customers with the best products for their needs. Profits are required to survive and grow.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right.

Reading musses up my mind.

We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

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

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

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

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

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

The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.

There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case.

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.

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

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

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