Henry Ford Inspirational Quotations

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

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

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

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

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

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

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.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

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

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

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

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

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.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

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

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.