Henry Ford Quotes for Success: Driving Your Way to the Top

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

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

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

When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.

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

The greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

You can’t build a reputation for what you are going to do.

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

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and our economic structure, only in times of depression.

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

Impossible means that you haven’t found a solution yet.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

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

Don’t expect people to respect you for what you are “planning” to do.

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.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

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

Our modern industrialism changed to motives of public service, which will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

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

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

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

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

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

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

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

Teach children not to be gullible.

It’s your thinking that decides whether you’re going to succeed or fail.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

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.

In teaching the children at Greenfield Village, we are trying to get back some of the solid McGuffey qualities.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

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

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

A man’s real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

Believe in the best … have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run, things will turn out for the best.

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

If I’d listened to customers, I’d have given them a faster horse.

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

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

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

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

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

Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, money brings that out, that’s all.

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

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

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

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

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.