Henry Ford on Excellence Quotes

"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."

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

"Standardization in its true sense is the union of all the best points of commodities with all the best points of production, to the end that the worker may buy what he makes."

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

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

"We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth."

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

"Everything is possible. ‘Faith’ is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

"The way to learn to do things is by doing them."

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

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

"Standardization is the prerequisite of all progress."

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

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

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."

"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."

"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."

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

"The best way to produce a good product is to make the work simple."

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

"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."

"Experience is the thing of supreme value."