Henry Ford Quotes

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

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

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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

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

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

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

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

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