June 2009

Quotes from Henry Ford

1. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

2. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

3. 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.

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

5. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

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

7. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

18. 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.

19. 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.

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