Henry Ford was unarguably one of the most prominent industrialists of the 19th and 20th century. Best recognized as the founder of Ford Motors, Henry Ford also played a pivotal role in the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Born in 1863 in the U.S, Ford was an influential business magnate, giving out quotes that inspired countless. His quotes about business, education, money, and professionalism are relevant and inspirational even today. This article will provide you with the 60 inspirational Henry Ford quotes.
1. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”– Henry Ford
2. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”– Henry Ford
3. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”– Henry Ford
4. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”– Henry Ford
5. “When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ….”– Henry Ford
6. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”– Henry Ford
7. “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
8. “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
9. “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
10. “Success is 99% failure.”– Henry Ford
11. “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
12. “Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”– Henry Ford
13. “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”– Henry Ford
14. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”– Henry Ford
15. “Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”– Henry Ford
16. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.”– Henry Ford
17. “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
18. “Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.”– Henry Ford
19. “That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.”– Henry Ford
20. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.”– Henry Ford
21. “Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”– Henry Ford
22. “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
23. “Experience is the thing of supreme value.”– Henry Ford
24. “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
25. “To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”– Henry Ford
26. “As we serve our jobs we serve the world.”– Henry Ford
27. “That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.”– Henry Ford
28. “We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.”– Henry Ford
29. “When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.”– Henry Ford
30. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”– Henry Ford
31. “It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.”– Henry Ford
32. “People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.”– Henry Ford
33. “Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.”– Henry Ford
34. “There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.”– Henry Ford
35. “Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.”– Henry Ford
36. “The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.”– Henry Ford
37. “War is not a matter for the professional pacifist or militarist. It is for the unprofessional people. They finance and fight it, they bear its losses. Therefore, they should have the deciding voice concerning it. To do this, they require all the information upon which decisions are made. They should know in a difference, whether it is soluble by rational intelligence, or inevitable by force. Not once in a thousand instances would our people approve an offensive war. Never would they be lax in defensive action. For this is their country. However, most of their enemies are within it.”– Henry Ford
38. “For a long time now, I have believed that industry & agriculture are natural partners & that they should begin to recognize & practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider…”– Henry Ford
39. “I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.”– Henry Ford
40. “A peaceful nation is one that has the means to make war and restrains.”– Henry Ford
41. “Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it.”– Henry Ford
42. “Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.”– Henry Ford
43. “Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season.”– Henry Ford
44. “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
45. “The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.”– Henry Ford
46. “Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.”– Henry Ford
47. “Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.”– Henry Ford
48. “Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.”– Henry Ford
49. “Profits made out of the distress of the people are always much smaller than profits made out of the most lavish service of the people at the lowest prices that competent management can make possible.”– Henry Ford
50. “..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.”– Henry Ford
51. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”– Henry Ford
52. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”– Henry Ford
53. “Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”– Henry Ford
54. “I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”– Henry Ford
55. “There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”– Henry Ford
56. “You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”– Henry Ford
57. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”– Henry Ford
58. “There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.”– Henry Ford
59. “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
60. “Money doesn’t make us anyway it just unmasks us.”– Henry Ford
