Henry Ford – 42 Quotes

42 Quotes by Henry Ford

History is more or less bunk.

– Henry Ford

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

– Henry Ford

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

– Henry Ford

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

– Henry Ford

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

– Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

– Henry Ford

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

– Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

– Henry Ford

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

– Henry Ford

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

– Henry Ford

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

– Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

– Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

– Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

– Henry Ford

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

– Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

– 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

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

– Henry Ford

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

– Henry Ford

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

– Henry Ford

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

– Henry Ford

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

– Henry Ford

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

– Henry Ford

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.

– Henry Ford

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

– Henry Ford

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

– Henry Ford

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

– Henry Ford

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

– Henry Ford

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.

– Henry Ford

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.

– Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

– Henry Ford

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 make today.

– Henry Ford

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

– Henry Ford

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.

– 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

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

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

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.

– Henry Ford

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.

– 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

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

– 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