Henry Ford People Quotations

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

Many people 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 person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.

I don?t believe in titles, they make people think they are superior

The only change people like is the one that jingles in their pocket.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right.

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .

One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

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

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

People are as happy as they choose to be.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.