Henry Ford was an American industrialist and a business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company. He is best known for his pioneering achievements in the automobile industry, including his assembly line production, and his introduction of the Model T car in 1908. He is credited with helping to create a middle class by making cars affordable for the average American family. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Henry Ford on success, quality, education.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
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.
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.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. — 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
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do & then do it. — Henry Ford
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said: Faster horses...
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. — Henry Ford
The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others. — Henry Ford
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. — 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
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Henry Ford Quotes About Quality
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. — 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
Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business — Henry Ford
Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount. — Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes About Education
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. — Henry Ford
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. — Henry Ford
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things. — Henry Ford
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test. — Henry Ford
An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things. — Henry Ford
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity. — Henry Ford
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired. — Henry Ford
When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future. — Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes About Leadership
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. — Henry Ford
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men. — Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes About Learning
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. — 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
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
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. — Henry Ford
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year. — Henry Ford
One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be. — Henry Ford
There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success. — Henry Ford
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned. — Henry Ford
Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. — Henry Ford
Who stops learning may be old. — Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes About Money
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. — Henry Ford
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life. — 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
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. — Henry Ford
Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time. — Henry Ford
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. — 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
It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages. — Henry Ford
Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it. — Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes About Change
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change. — Henry Ford
We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress. — Henry Ford
Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them. — Henry Ford
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind. — Henry Ford
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail. — Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes About People
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
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. — Henry Ford
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. — Henry Ford
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people. — Henry Ford
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself — Henry Ford
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. — Henry Ford
Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right. — Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes About World
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts. — 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
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 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. — Henry Ford
If it is 'anti-Semitism' to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish. — Henry Ford
If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it. — 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
The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized. — Henry Ford
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. — Henry Ford
No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things. — Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes About Business
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
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
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. — Henry Ford
Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind. — 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
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. — Henry Ford
Henry Ford Quotes About Ability
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right! — Henry Ford
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. — Henry Ford
The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence. — Henry Ford
If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability — Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. — Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. — Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. — Henry Ford
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. — Henry Ford
Vision without execution is just hallucination. — Henry Ford
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. — Henry Ford
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 — Henry Ford
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success. — Henry Ford
Those who walk with God always reach their destination. — Henry Ford
Never complain. Never explain. — Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. — Henry Ford
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. — 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
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. — 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
Whether you believe you can or not, you're right. — Henry Ford
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields? — Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. — Henry Ford
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. — Henry Ford
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. — Henry Ford
The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others. — Henry Ford
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. — 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
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. — Henry Ford
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer. — Henry Ford
Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience — Henry Ford
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. — Henry Ford
Whatever you resist will persist. — Henry Ford
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. — Henry Ford
The more you think, the more time you have. — Henry Ford
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. — Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. — Henry Ford
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls. — Henry Ford
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. — Henry Ford
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems. — 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
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. — Henry Ford
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. — Henry Ford
Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet . — Henry Ford
Anybody can do anything that he imagines. — Henry Ford
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. — Henry Ford
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy. — Henry Ford
Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. — 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
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work. — Henry Ford
It is the customer that pays the wages — Henry Ford
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. — Henry Ford
Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. — Henry Ford
One who fears failure limits his activities. — Henry Ford
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. — Henry Ford
Life Lessons by Henry Ford
Henry Ford's life teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult they may be. He overcame numerous obstacles to become one of the most successful industrialists of all time.
He also showed us the importance of hard work and dedication, as he worked tirelessly to develop the assembly line and revolutionize the automobile industry.
Finally, Ford's life serves as an example of the power of innovation and creativity, as he was able to create products and services that changed the world.
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