Henry Ford Quotes

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're probably right.

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

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

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.

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

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

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.

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.

If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘Faster Horses’.

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

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

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

History is more or less bunk.

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

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

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

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.