Henry Ford Quotes
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives
The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.
Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right.
Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.
The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.
One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.
Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.
Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.
Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.
There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
