Henry Ford was born on the 30th of July, 1863 in Springwells Township, Michigan, United States. He was an American industrialist and business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Henry Ford’s introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He became one of the richest and best-known people in the world and was credited with “Fordism”: mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Henry Ford died April 7, 1947 in Fair Lane, Home of Clara and Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, United States at the age of 83.
In this article, we have compiled an array of popular Henry Ford quotes and sayings.
80 Henry Ford Quotes About Life, Business & Success
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.― Henry Ford Quote
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.― Henry Ford Quote
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.― Henry Ford Quote
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.― Henry Ford Quote
When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ….― Henry Ford Quote
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.― Henry Ford Quote
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 Quote
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.― Henry Ford Quote
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 Quote
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement”.― Henry Ford Quote
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 Quote
To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.― Henry Ford Quote
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.― Henry Ford Quote
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.― Henry Ford Quote
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.― Henry Ford Quote
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.― Henry Ford Quote
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 Quote
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.― Henry Ford Quote
That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone—not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.― Henry Ford Quote
“With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.”― Henry Ford Quote
“Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.”― Henry Ford Quote
“A man’s real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.”― Henry Ford Quote
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.”― Henry Ford Quote
“Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.”― Henry Ford Quote
“A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.”― Henry Ford Quote
“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 Quote
“The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.”― Henry Ford Quote
“Those who walk with God, always reach their destination.”― Henry Ford Quote
The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.― Henry Ford Quote
Speculation into thing already produced that is not business― Henry Ford Quote
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.― Henry Ford Quote
Experience is the thing of supreme value”.― Henry Ford Quote
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.― Henry Ford Quote
As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow― Henry Ford Quote
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.― Henry Ford Quote
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.― Henry Ford Quote
Money doesn’t make us anyway it just unmasks us.― Henry Ford Quote
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.― Henry Ford Quote
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.― Henry Ford Quote
There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.― Henry Ford Quote
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 Quote
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs― Henry Ford Quote
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.― Henry Ford Quote
Vision without execution is just hallucination.― Henry Ford Quote
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.― Henry Ford Quote
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.― Henry Ford Quote
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.― Henry Ford Quote
Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain― Henry Ford Quote
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.― Henry Ford Quote
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste― Henry Ford Quote
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.― Henry Ford Quote
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 Quote
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.― Henry Ford Quote
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.― Henry Ford Quote
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.― Henry Ford Quote
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.― Henry Ford Quote
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.― Henry Ford Quote
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 Quote
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.― Henry Ford Quote
Sometimes you just don’t like somebody― Henry Ford Quote
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.― Henry Ford Quote
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?― Henry Ford Quote
It ought to be the employer’s ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman’s ambition to make it possible― Henry Ford Quote
Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.― Henry Ford Quote
Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.― Henry Ford Quote
As we serve our jobs we serve the world.― Henry Ford Quote
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.― Henry Ford Quote
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.― Henry Ford Quote
I am looking for a lot of men who have and infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.― Henry Ford Quote
Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.― Henry Ford Quote
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail― Henry Ford Quote
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.― Henry Ford Quote
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.― Henry Ford Quote
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.― Henry Ford Quote
Success is 99% failure― Henry Ford Quote
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.― Henry Ford Quote
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.― Henry Ford Quote
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice― Henry Ford Quote
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.― Henry Ford Quote
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.― Henry Ford Quote