Henry Ford on Work Quotes

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

"A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer."

"Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. So long as we work, we are at peace with ourselves."

"Labor is not a commodity; it is a service."

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

"The best way to help a man is to help him help himself."

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

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

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

"Life is work, and everything else is just waiting for the next job."

"The work is the thing. The man who does the work is the thing."

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

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

"An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history—he is one who can accomplish things."

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

"The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it."

"A man who is afraid of his work is not a man."

"Hard work is the only way to get anywhere."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets."

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

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

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

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

"The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail."

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

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

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

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