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.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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 invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

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.

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.

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.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

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.

History is more or less bunk.

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.