Quotes by Henry Ford

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

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

"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."

"History is more or less bunk."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."