1. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. 2. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
3. It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
5. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
6. Don't find fault, find a remedy.
7. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
9. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
10. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
12. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
13. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
14. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
16. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
17. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
19. It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
21. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
22. If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
24. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
25. Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
26. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
28. You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
29. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
31. An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
33. A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
34. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
35. 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.
36. You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
38. As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
39. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
40. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
42. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
44. It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
45. I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
47. There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
48. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
50. Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
51. Vision without execution is just hallucination.
53. There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
54. All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.
56. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
58. Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
59. When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
60. If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
62. When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.
63. 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.
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