My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Friendship, Best, Friend
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Integrity, One liners, Quality
Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity-not simply for ourselves but for others-the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.
—Henry Ford
Topics: America
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Business
Too many of us, when we accomplish what we set out to do, exclaim, “See what I have done!” instead of saying, “See where I have been led”.
—Henry Ford
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: Foolishness, Fools
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
—Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
—Henry Ford
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
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Ideals, Idealism
Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
—Henry Ford
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. 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. Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce-no improvement, no development-it is done.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Competition
The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Excellence, Decisions, Chance
The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Ability
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Mistakes
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
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Problems
Business will get better, but we won’t know when it does
—Henry Ford
Topics: Business
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Pride
Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Usefullness, One liners, Work
I now know that wars do not end wars.
—Henry Ford
Topics: War
Money is like an arm or leg—use it or lose it.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Money
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Bores, Boredom
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Happiness
For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks, disappointments and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward
—Henry Ford
Topics: Experience, Character
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Problems
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
—Henry Ford
Topics: School
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
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
—Henry Ford
Topics: Action, Problem-solving, Mistakes, Faults
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.
—Henry Ford
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