Henry ford Inspirational Quotes

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

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

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

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Whatever you resist will persist.

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

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

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

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.

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

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

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why 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.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

If it doesn't add value, it's waste.

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

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

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

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.

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

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

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

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.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

Those who walk with God always reach their destination.

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

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.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

People are as happy as they choose to be.

You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

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

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

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

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

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

success is 99% failure

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

The more you think, the more time you have.

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

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

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.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

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

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

To live a great life, you must believe in yourself. Let these quotes help you to create a mindset for believing in yourself... Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

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

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

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

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

Every experience is worth having.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.

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.

If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.

Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose

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

There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

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.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

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

Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

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

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

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

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.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

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.

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

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.

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

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

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

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

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

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

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.