“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”
— Henry Ford
“Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
“Thinking is the hardest thing a man can do, probably the reason so few of them do it.”
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
“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.”
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
“There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
“Believe in the best. Have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best.”
“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.”
“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
“Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?”
“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 griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
“To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.”
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
“You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.”
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
“With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.”
“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”
“Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.”
“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.”
“Those who walk with God, always reach their destination.”
“Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world’s failures.”
“A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.”
“There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.”
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
“Working together is success.”
“The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.”
“Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.”
“One who fears failure limits his activities.”
“There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.”
“You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.”
“Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.”
“If it doesn’t add value, it’s waste.”
“Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.”
“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.”
“I’ll sleep well tonight.”
“Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don’t save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.”
“Show me who makes a profit from war, and I’ll show you how to stop the war.”
“Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.”
“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.”
“An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history – he is one who can accomplish things.”
“Anybody can do anything that he imagines.”
“Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.”
“You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.”
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
“The object of living is work, experience, happiness.”
“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.”
“Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.”
“Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.”
“A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.”
“Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business.”
“I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.”
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.”
“Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel – only a means to an end.”
“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.”
“To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.”
“Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.”
“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”
“When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.”
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
“Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.”
“There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.”
“The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .”
“Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.”
“Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.”
“The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.”
“The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.”
“One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.”
“Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.”
“Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.”
“If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
“Every success is the mother of countless others.”
“The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.”
“Any colour – so long as it’s black.”
“I was happier when I was doing a mechanic’s job.”
“A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.”
“Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man’s independence.”
“Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.”
“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.”
“If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.”
“I will build a car for the great multitude.”
“Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.”
“To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.”
“A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.”
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