Henry Ford

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”

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

“History is more or less bunk.”

“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”

“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”

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

“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”

“Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.”

“Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.”

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress working together is success.”

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”