Henry Ford Motivational Quotations

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

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

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

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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

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

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

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.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.

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.

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

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

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

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.

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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