Henry Ford on Creativity Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"The way to learn to do things is by doing them, devoting to the work every ounce of energy that you have."

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

"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."

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

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

"The short-cut is often the longest way around; the creative way is the direct way."

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

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

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

"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."

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