Henry Ford Quotes

320 Henry Ford Quotes

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You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
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

Anything that isn’t good for everybody is no good at all.
Henry Ford

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

Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
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

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
Henry Ford

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
Henry Ford

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
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

We have always found that, if our principles were right, the area over which they were applied did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.
Henry Ford

It is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.
Henry Ford

Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity-not simply for ourselves but for others-the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.
Henry Ford

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
Henry Ford

The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else’s work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

When a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce-no improvement, no development-it is done.
Henry Ford

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow-you get somewhere.
Henry Ford

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.
Henry Ford

If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view-as well as your own.
Henry Ford



Too many of us, when we accomplish what we set out to do, exclaim, ‘See what I have done!’ instead of saying, ‘See where I have been led.’
Henry Ford

The question ‘Who ought to be boss?’ is like asking ‘Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.
Henry Ford

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

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

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

One who fears failure limits his activities.
Henry Ford

Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.
Henry Ford

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



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

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

[On an exchange with William Randolph Hearst who had expensive tastes and was always strapped for cash] That’s a mistake. A man ought to have five hundred million dollars or so in cash for a rainy day.
Henry Ford

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford

Organizations will stampede us into war again if we allow them to keep on.
Henry Ford

What causes war is not patriotism, not that human beings are willing to die in defense of their dearest ones. It is the false doctrine, fostered by the few that war spells gain.
Henry Ford

Anybody can do anything that they imagine.
Henry Ford

It is well that people do no understand the banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

The one aim of international financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.
Henry Ford

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what it is one’s destiny to do and then to do it.
Henry Ford



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