Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
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.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
Whether you believe you can or you believe you can’t, you are correct.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
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.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.
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.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.
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.
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
It is not the employer who pays wages – he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
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.
Think you can think you can’t either way you’ll be right.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
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.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.
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.
Before everything else getting ready is the secret of success.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.
We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
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.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
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.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
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.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
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.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
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.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
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.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
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.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.