Henry Ford Quotes

When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

The common denominator for success is work.

Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody asks you to do, you know how to handle it accordingly. I learned so much while working, because I developed a solid work ethic in school. Whereas, a lot of my friends had no work ethic; and because of that, they're sitting at home today.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.