Quotes from Henry Ford


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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.


Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.


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.


Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.


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.


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.


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


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


What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.


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


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


Any colour - so long as it's black.


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.


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


Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.


A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.


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


The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.


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.


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