Henry Ford

“Whether you think you can or think you can't – you are right.”

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

“If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.”

“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”

“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”

“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”

“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.”

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

“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.”

“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 market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”

“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.”

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

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”