"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 make today."

"Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about."

"The question 'Who ought to be boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?' Obviously the man who can sing tenor."

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."

"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."

"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

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

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

"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."

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

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

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."

"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."

"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."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

"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."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."

"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible."

"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."

"Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it."

"When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.Ford replied,''Produce it anyway."

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

"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."

"To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success."

"History is more or less bunk."

"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."

"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."

"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."

"One who fears failure limits his activities."

"We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today."

"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."

"To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

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

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

"Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all."

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

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian."

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

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

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

"Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right."

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