Henry Ford Quotes

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.

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

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

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow.

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

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

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.

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

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

"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.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The economic fundamental is labour. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men's labour that makes the harvest what it is. That is the economic fundamental: every one of us is working with material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to us by Nature.

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

But to do for the world more than the world does for you--that is Success.