Henry Ford on Creativity Quotes

"Greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present."

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

"Standardization is not a standstill; it is the platform on which we build."

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

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

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

"Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work."

"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain."

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

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

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

"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."

"Everything can always be done better than it is being done."

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

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

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

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

"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."

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this."

"Speculation into the future is not as productive as the application of thought to the present."

"To do for the world more than the world does for you - that is success."

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

"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."

"Waste is the result of a lack of design; it is the absence of thought in the process."

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

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."

"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice."

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

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