Henry Ford Quotes

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

I am very efficient.

If you are good enough, you should play.

A lot of people can score. What else can you do?

My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity.

I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'

There is only one proof of ability - action.

I like people who can do things

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

Look for competence not claims.

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.