Quotes By Henry Ford

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

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

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.