Henry Ford Quotes

12 quotes from Henry Ford on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

• It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

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

• Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

On entrepreneurship

• A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

On motivation

• Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

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

• Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.

• Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

• One who fears failure limits his activities.

• Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't, you are correct.

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

• Vision without execution is just hallucination.