Henry Ford

“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.”

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

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.”

“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.”

“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.”

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”

“History is more or less bunk.”

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

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

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