Quotes from Henry Ford

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

Business will get better, but we won't know when it does

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

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

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though 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.

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

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.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose

Our employees are like extended members of our family.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

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

Don't find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself–in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

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

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

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.

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

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.