S.R. Ford Quotes

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

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

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.

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

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

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

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

Those who walk with God always reach their destination.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

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

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.

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

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

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.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

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

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

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

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

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

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.