Henry Ford Quotes & Sayings

The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on. — Henry Ford

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home! — Henry Ford

Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls. — Henry Ford

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

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind. — Henry Ford

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going,
always going, no matter what happens, there is no
certainty of success. It is really an endurance race. — Henry Ford

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again. — Henry Ford

For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No, I have no desire to know what, or who I was once; or what, or who, I shall be in the ages to come. This belief in immortality makes present living the more attractive. It gives you all the time there is. You will always be able to finish what you start. There is no fever or strain in such an outlook. We are here in life for one purpose: to get experience. We are all getting it, and we shall all use it somewhere. — Henry Ford

Bolshevism failed because it was both unnatural and immoral. Our system stands. Is it wrong? Of course it is wrong, at a thousand points! Is it clumsy? Of course it is clumsy. By all right and reason it ought to break down. But it does not - because it is instinct with certain economic and moral fundamentals. The economic fundamental is labour. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men's labour that makes the harvest what it is. That is the economic fundamental: every one of us is working with material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to us by Nature. — Henry Ford

There is no reason why a man who is willing to work should not be able to work and to receive the full value of his work. There is equally no reason why a man who can but will not work should not receive the full value of his services to the community. He should most certainly be permitted to take away from the community an equivalent of what he contributes to it. If he contributes nothing he should take away nothing. He should have the freedom of starvation. We — Henry Ford

An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product. — Henry Ford

Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it. — Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. — Henry Ford

Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information. — Henry Ford

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. — Henry Ford

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do. — Henry Ford

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. — Henry Ford

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

I'll sleep well tonight — Henry Ford

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. — Henry Ford

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence. — Henry Ford

The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all. — Henry Ford

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. — Henry Ford

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . I did not need it very bad. — Henry Ford

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

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another. — Henry Ford

One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it. — Henry Ford

The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. — Henry Ford

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts — Henry Ford

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money. — Henry Ford

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are . — Henry Ford

I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service. — Henry Ford

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business. — Henry Ford

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it. — Henry Ford

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

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more. — Henry Ford

The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money. — Henry Ford

There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. It is not possible to learn from books how everything is made - and a real mechanic ought to know how nearly everything is made. Machines are to a mechanic what books are to a writer. He gets ideas from them, and if he has any brains he will apply those ideas. — Henry Ford

You don't have to hold a position to be a leader. — Henry Ford

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy. — Henry Ford

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers. — Henry Ford

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking. — Henry Ford

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime. — Henry Ford

It is the customer that pays the wages — Henry Ford

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. — Henry Ford

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right. — Henry Ford

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. — Henry Ford

1. An absence of fear of the future and of veneration for the past. One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. What is past is useful only as it suggests ways and means for progress. — Henry Ford

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. — Henry Ford

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years. — Henry Ford

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail — Henry Ford

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol. — Henry Ford

The natural thing to do is to work - to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. — Henry Ford

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost. — Henry Ford

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman. — Henry Ford

( ... )the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be made to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, experience has taught us anything it is that questions thus suppressed will sooner or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms. — Henry Ford

success is 99% failure — Henry Ford

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving. — Henry Ford

All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance. — Henry Ford

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. — Henry Ford

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.
Ford replied,'Produce it anyway. — Henry Ford

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded. — Henry Ford

Whatever you resist will persist. — Henry Ford

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others. — Henry Ford

A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us. — Henry Ford

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. — Henry Ford

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It — Henry Ford

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't
you're right. — Henry Ford

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. — Henry Ford

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life. — Henry Ford

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. — Henry Ford

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off. — Henry Ford

If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct ... It's the thinking that makes it so. — Henry Ford

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary. — Henry Ford

Political parties are like poets, born, not made. — Henry Ford

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out. — Henry Ford

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness. — Henry Ford

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. — Henry Ford

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today. — Henry Ford

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. — Henry Ford

Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose — Henry Ford

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer. — Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. — Henry Ford

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. — Henry Ford

I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind. — Henry Ford

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

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. — Henry Ford

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all. — Henry Ford

Anybody can do anything that he imagines. — Henry Ford

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power — Henry Ford

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals. — Henry Ford

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. — Henry Ford

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. — Henry Ford

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value. — Henry Ford

There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years. — Henry Ford

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression. — Henry Ford

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it. — Henry Ford

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. — Henry Ford

Et if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos. — Henry Ford

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet. — Henry Ford