Quotes by Henry Ford

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

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.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

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

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

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

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

We dont want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinkers dam is the history we make today.

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 man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldnt do.

Dont find fault, find a remedy.

If you think you can do a thing or think you cant do a thing, youre right.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

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

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

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