A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.
Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.
There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.
The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.
I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.
Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.
Sometimes you just don't like somebody
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right.
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.
An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.
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 don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.
There is no such thing as no chance.
All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.
Too many men are afraid of being fools.
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.
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