Quotes By Henry Ford

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

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.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

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