Henry Ford

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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

History is more or less bunk.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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.

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.