Henry Ford Quotes

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential.

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!

When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly. It's the people who are talented enough and who have the open mind and who are forward-thinkers are the ones who are doing something new. You tend to hate on what you can't produce.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.