Henry Ford Quotes

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

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

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

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one...

"Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled — he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there."

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.

Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Es gibt mehr Leute, die kapitulieren, als solche, die scheitern.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.