A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Boredom, Bores
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Work
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Money
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Evil
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy’s life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Books
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.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Fools, Foolishness
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Time, Waste, Time Management
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.
—Henry Ford
Topics: One liners, Education, Learning
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.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Honor, Talent, Success, Goals
Business will get better, but we won’t know when it does
—Henry Ford
Topics: Business
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Assumptions
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Worry, Miscellaneous, Service
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
—Henry Ford
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Business
To do more for the world than the world does for you—that is success.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Helping
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Idealism, Ideals
Indecision is often worse than wrong action.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Courage, Decide
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.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Business
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Mistakes, Faults, Action, Problem-solving
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Work, Idleness
If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view—as well as your own.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Success
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Business
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
—Henry Ford
Topics: School
Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Belief, Think, Right, Ability, Virtues
Never complain. Never explain.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Pessimism, Complaints, Complaining
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.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Independence, Knowledge
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Money
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Beginnings, Miscellaneous, Teamwork, Togetherness, Teams
There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Potential
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Success, Entrepreneurs, Progress, Teamwork
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