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Henry Ford's insights on Passion aren't theoretical—they're battle-tested wisdom from someone who operated at the highest level. This collection distills that experience into quotable principles, each with source context for verification. When you're navigating Passion in the real world, these quotes offer the kind of practical guidance that only comes from direct experience.
"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."
"To do for the world more than the world does for you - that is success."
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice."
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this."
"The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much."
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
"Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. So long as work is our pride, it will also be our preservation."
"Enthusiasm is the engine of the world."
"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 whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."
"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars."
"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
"Geniuses are only people who have learned how to use their energy and their focus."
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
"There is a joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
"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."
"The man who is too set to change is dead. The man who is too set to change his mind is dead."
"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of out of supplying goods and services."
"An educated man is not one whose memory is trained and who knows everything, but one who can do everything."
"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."
"Money is like an arm or leg—use it or lose it."
"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain."
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