100+ Powerful Ford Quotes That Inspire Success & Innovation

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.”

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”

“Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.”

“It is simplest to duplicate what has been done before, but that doesn’t guarantee success.”

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

“There is no man who is a failure if he finds his purpose in life.”

“To win the race, you must first finish the race.”

“Chop your own wood—it will warm you twice.”

“The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“Money does not constitute success. The only true measure of success is the ratio of what you might have done and what you have done.”

“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right.”

“Work is more fun than fun.”

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

“The person who gets the farthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.”

“You can do anything if you believe you can.”

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.”

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”

“It is probable that we misunderstand nearly everything we try to understand.”

“The moment you blame someone else, you lose the power to change.”

“Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.”

“The biggest failure a man can make is to live in constant fear of making one.”

“Experience teaches slowly and at the expense of mistakes.”

“I have learned more from my failures than from my successes.”

“Try, fail, learn, repeat.”

“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.”

“The key to success is to risk something others don’t.”

“Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.”

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

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

“Thinking wins battles as well as works.”

“The only real education is self-education.”

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

“Labor is prior to and independent of capital.”

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

“Use your brain—and every other part of you—as long as you live.”

“Work is more fun than fun.”

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

“Leadership is doing the right things when no one is watching.”

“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”

“A company is like a tree. The roots are its foundation, the trunk is its organization, and the leaves are its products.”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it.”

“The leader sees the vision and makes others see it too.”

“A vision without action is just a dream. Action without vision is just passing time. Vision with action can change the world.”

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.”

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often his willingness to try it and his faith.”

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate signs of his presence.”

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

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

“Collaboration is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

“Teamwork makes the dream work.”

“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.”

“The best profit is the one you don’t make because it harms your customer.”

“Businesses exist to serve people—not the other way around.”

“Profit is not the primary goal, but a result of doing things right.”

“The only thing better than owning a car is owning the company that makes cars.”

“The industrialist must lead the way in improving society.”

“Start with good people, train them well, and treat them right.”

“The way to make money is to save the customer money.”

“Customers buy solutions, not products.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication in business.”

“Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room.”

“An ideal job is one so interesting you forget to look at the clock.”

“Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away.”

“It is easier to change the course of history than to convince people to change their minds.”

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”

“Happiness is doing something useful, something difficult, something meaningful.”

“Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.”

“The only true education comes from pursuing questions relentlessly.”

“To give happiness is worth more than to receive it.”

“The man who gives his children habits of industry provides them with the most useful possession.”

“Peace begins with a smile—and a fair wage.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“Progress happens when unusual people break the rules.”

“The only real security is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”

“The advances of technology are rapid, but the advancement of humanity is slow.”

“The only thing standing between us and a better future is our unwillingness to change.”

“The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed.”

“We are changing the world with technology, but we must never let it change our values.”

“The next decade will see more changes than the last century.”

“Automation won't replace humans—but it will redefine work.”

“The best way to shape the future is to invent it.”

“Dream big, start small, act now.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”

“Education is not merely schooling. It is the lifelong process of learning.”

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.”

“The man who learns only from books is incomplete.”

“Knowledge is power. But enthusiasm pulls the switch.”

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

“The desire to learn is the greatest teacher.”

“Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and self-reflection.”

“The more you know, the less you need to prove.”

“Formal education will teach you how to follow instructions. Self-education teaches you how to write them.”

“Growth begins where comfort ends.”