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

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

Es gibt mehr Leute, die kapitulieren, als solche, die scheitern.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

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

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...

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?

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

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Ci si myslite, ze to dokaze, alebo nedokaze, v oboch pripadoch mate pravdu.

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.

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

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.

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

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.

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

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

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you say you can or you can’t you are right either way

Coming together is a beginning; staying together is progress; working together is success.