150 Quotes by Henry Ford
Henry Ford, a visionary businessman, revolutionized the automotive industry and left an enduring impact on modern manufacturing. His innovative introduction of the assembly line technique transformed the way products were made, making them more affordable and accessible to the masses. Ford's commitment to efficiency and standardization not only led to the production of the iconic Model T but also set the stage for the development of large-scale industrial production methods. His influence extended beyond business as he advocated for higher wages for workers, aiming to create a workforce that could afford the very products they were producing. Despite his achievements, Ford's legacy is also marked by controversies, including his views on social issues. Nevertheless, his pioneering spirit and industrial ingenuity significantly shaped the trajectory of global commerce and the way products are manufactured to this day.
Henry Ford Quotes
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. (Meaning)
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right. (Quote Meaning)
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. (Meaning)
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. (Quote Meaning)
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. (Meaning)
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. (Quote Meaning)
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black. (Meaning)
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. (Quote Meaning)
To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success. (Meaning)
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. (Quote Meaning)
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. (Meaning)
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. (Quote Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. (Quote Meaning)
Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it. (Meaning)
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Quote Meaning)
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. (Meaning)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Quote Meaning)
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. (Meaning)
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. (Quote Meaning)
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. (Meaning)
Vision without execution is just hallucination. (Quote Meaning)
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. (Meaning)
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. (Quote Meaning)
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. (Meaning)
Whether you believe you can or not, you're right. (Quote Meaning)
Don't find fault, find a remedy. (Meaning)
Those who walk with God always reach their destination. (Quote Meaning)
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. (Meaning)
Whatever you resist will persist. (Quote Meaning)
People are as happy as they choose to be. (Meaning)
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. (Quote Meaning)
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose. (Meaning)
If it doesn't add value, it's waste. (Quote Meaning)
You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul. (Meaning)
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. (Quote Meaning)
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. (Meaning)
success is 99% failure (Quote Meaning)
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. (Meaning)
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail (Quote Meaning)
If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary. (Meaning)
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. (Quote Meaning)
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. (Meaning)
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. (Quote Meaning)
Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount. (Meaning)
Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. (Quote Meaning)
Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time. (Meaning)
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. (Quote Meaning)
One who fears failure limits his activities. (Meaning)
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
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.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
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.
Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best
Those who walk with God always reach their destination.
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.
Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
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.
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
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.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.
Understand the difference between being at work and working.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.
If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.
If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.
Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.
You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
The more you think, the more time you have.
To live a great life, you must believe in yourself. Let these quotes help you to create a mindset for believing in yourself. Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
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.
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.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.
People are as happy as they choose to be.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.
The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid
Anybody can do anything that he imagines.
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.
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.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.
The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.
Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.
If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.
Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.
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.
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.
If it doesn't add value, it's waste.
Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Success is 99% failure
An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.
The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.
There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.
Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .
Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.
The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on.
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.
If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail
Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.
The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.
We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.
Every experience is worth having.
The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.
When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.
Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.
Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.
The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.
The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.
You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
― Henry Ford Quotes
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