Quotes from Henry Ford

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

Es gibt mehr Leute, die kapitulieren, als solche, die scheitern.

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business

It ought to be the employer's ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman's ambition to make it possible

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled—he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

Hidup adalah serangkaian pengalaman, Setiap pengalaman membuat kita lebih besar, walau pun kita tidak menyadarinya.

An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

How soon will Ford blow up?" Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.

It is easier to make money from money than it is to make money from business. Don't take the acumen of bankers as any guide for business, all they know is money.

Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.

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.

the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be made to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, experience has taught us anything it is that questions thus suppressed will sooner or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms.

If you think you can or think you can't your correct.

That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone—not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.

True education is gained through the discipline of life. There

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

Kdybych poslouchal své zákazníky, býval bych jim dal jen rychlejšího kon?.

Oamenii isi pot cumpara masini de orice culoare poftesc, numai sa fie neagra!

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.