Henry Ford

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.

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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