658 Quotes by Henry Ford

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered reincarnation . . . time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. . . . I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.