Henry Ford

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you shouldn’t take it.

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What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

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

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The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

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Money is like an arm or leg—use it or lose it.

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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.

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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.

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Nobody can really guarantee the future. 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.

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Profit is a byproduct of work; happiness is its chief product.

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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.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

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People can have the Model T in any color--so long as it's black.

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History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition.

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

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Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

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

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I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

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History is bunk.

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Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.

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Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

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Every success is the mother of countless others.

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Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

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Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

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The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

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The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

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

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

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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.

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Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount

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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

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Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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

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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.

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

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