Quotes From Henry Ford On Business, Leadership And Life

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

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

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

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

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.

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

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

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

We do not hire experts neither do we hire men on past experiences or for any position other than the lowest. Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

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.

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

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

History is more or less bunk.

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

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