The words and quotes of Henry Ford still reverberate in the present day. His wisdom and experience shaped the society we live in today, and he had the courage to view things from a different perspective. Ford used those unfamiliar ideas to develop innovations that changed how we work and interact with one another. The result? A production system that revolutionized modern factories, as well as automobiles that revolutionize personal transportation.
I often wonder if Elon Musk is our generation’s Henry Ford or Thomas Edison and it’s arguably true. However, one thing is for certain, it’s definitely a thrilling time today as it was when Henry Ford gifted the world with his brilliance. From advocating for worker rights to dreaming up ways to make life easier for everyone, his quotes and sayings were some of the most influential expressions of the 20th century – and they remain important even now.
I hope you enjoy these Henry Ford quotes…
1) “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
2) “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
3) “Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.”
4) “Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
5) “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
6) “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
7) “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
8) “Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
9) “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
Quality over quantity…
10) “Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.”
11) “Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.”
12) “Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.”
13) “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
14) “Experience is the thing of supreme value.”
15) “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
16) “Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”
17) “Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.”
18) “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
19) “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”
Henry Ford Quotes
20) “I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.”
21) “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
22) “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
23) “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
24) “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
25) “You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
26) “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.”
27) “Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
28) “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
29) “It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?”
Money cannot manage anything…
30) “Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.”
31) “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
32) “One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.”
33) “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
34) “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
35) “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
36) “The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress.”
37) “There is only one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.”
38) “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.”
39) “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”
Henry Ford Quotes
40) “To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”
41) “That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.”
42) “The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.”
43) “There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”
44) “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
45) “To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.”
46) “Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.”
47) “Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
48) “We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light, and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.”
49) “Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”
Henry Ford Quotes
50) “Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.”
51) “When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.”
52) “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
53) “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.”
54) “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
55) “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
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