Explore Quotes by Henry Ford

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

History is more or less bunk.

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

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

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

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

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.

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

Any colour - so long as it's black.

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

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