Quotes from Henry Ford

I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard. I always am certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough. But it was a very great thing to have my wife even more confident than I was. She has always been that way.

Ci si myslite, ze to dokaze, alebo nedokaze, v oboch pripadoch mate pravdu.

If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten

Everybody wants to be someplace he ain't.

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.

Ask 100 people what they want and 80 will not know. 15 will claim to know. 5 will have a preference. The 95 are the market, few of the 5 are willing to pay… Don't listen to the 5% who request the changes. Listen to the 95% who buy without making a fuss!

1. An absence of fear of the future and of veneration for the past. One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. What is past is useful only as it suggests ways and means for progress.

Everything can always be done better than it is being done.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

Public officials are all right if they stay in their proper sphere and perform their proper functions but when they get greedy for wider scope and more power and money they lose their value and become parasites.

There are two kinds of people: Those who think they can, and those who think they can't, and they're both right.

Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information.

If an employer urges men to do their best, and the men learn after a while that their best does not bring any reward, then they naturally drop back into "getting by." But if they see the fruits of hard work in their pay envelope—proof that harder work means higher pay—then also they begin to learn that they are a part of the business, and that its success depends on them and their success depends on it.

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

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

Most surely all guys aren't same, and any democratic concept which strives to make men equal is handiest an attempt to block development

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right." ? Henry Ford

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.

I I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

The biggest goal can be achieved if you simply break it down into enough small parts.

And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him.

Skepticism, if by that we mean cautiousness, is the balance wheel of civilization.

The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.