Henry Ford Quotes

Most popular Henry Ford Quotes

Don't find fault, find a remedy. - Henry Ford quote.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
— Henry Ford
If you think you can or can't . . . you are right. - Henry Ford quote.
If you think you can or can't . . . you are right.
— Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford quote.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
— Henry Ford

friendship

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford quote.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
— Henry Ford

action

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford quote.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
— Henry Ford

business

Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success. - Henry Ford quote.
Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
— Henry Ford
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. - Henry Ford quote.
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
— Henry Ford Introduction to Business: Concepts and Careers

failure success & failure success

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. - Henry Ford quote.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
— Henry Ford

problems

An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit. - Henry Ford quote.
An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit.
— Henry Ford

idealist

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. - Henry Ford quote.
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.
— Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. - Henry Ford quote.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
— Henry Ford
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. - Henry Ford quote.
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
— Henry Ford Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations

boring people

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.T - Henry Ford quote.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.T
— Henry Ford
What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. - Henry Ford quote.
What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
— Henry Ford The Observer

evil

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford quote.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
— Henry Ford

confidence management believe in yourself

Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're absolutely right. - Henry Ford quote.
Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're absolutely right.
— Henry Ford
Any man who would really benefit mankind must reach them through his work. - Henry Ford quote.
Any man who would really benefit mankind must reach them through his work.
— Henry Ford
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford quote.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
— Henry Ford

attitude

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

management failure

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford quote.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
— Henry Ford

obstacles

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. - Henry Ford quote.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
— Henry Ford
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. - Henry Ford quote.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
— Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. - Henry Ford quote.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
— Henry Ford

funny critical thinking

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford quote.
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
— Henry Ford

unity cooperation

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. - Henry Ford quote.
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 the probable reason why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford quote.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
— Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays—he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. - Henry Ford quote.
It is not the employer who pays—he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
— Henry Ford

business economics

Everybody wants to be someplace he ain't. As soon as he gets there he wants to go right back. - Henry Ford quote.
Everybody wants to be someplace he ain't. As soon as he gets there he wants to go right back.
— Henry Ford

Travel

Most people will spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying to solve them. - Henry Ford quote.
Most people will spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying to solve them.
— Henry Ford The Forum

problems

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. - Henry Ford quote.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
— Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. - Henry Ford quote.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.
— Henry Ford

business

A dollar that stays 100 cents is as necessary as a pound that stays 16 ounces and a yard that stays 36 inches. - Henry Ford quote.
A dollar that stays 100 cents is as necessary as a pound that stays 16 ounces and a yard that stays 36 inches.
— Henry Ford My Life and Work

inflation money

Work is our sanity, our self respect, our salvation. So far from being a curse, work is the greatest blessing. - Henry Ford quote.
Work is our sanity, our self respect, our salvation. So far from being a curse, work is the greatest blessing.
— 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 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
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford quote.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
— Henry Ford

management believe in yourself

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed.  He has then only started with his customer. - Henry Ford quote.
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed.  He has then only started with his customer.
— Henry Ford My Life and Work

customers

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 quote.
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

business

Asking "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 quote.
Asking "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

leadership management power

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off. - Henry Ford quote.
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
— Henry Ford My Life and Work

progress

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 his angle as well as from your own. - 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 his angle as well as from your own.
— Henry Ford

negotiation success

It is no longer a distinction to be rich. . . Men do not care for money as they once did. . . What we accumulate by way of useless surplus does us no honor. - Henry Ford quote.
It is no longer a distinction to be rich. . . Men do not care for money as they once did. . . What we accumulate by way of useless surplus does us no honor.
— 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 quote.
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

old age

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel—only a means to an end. - Henry Ford quote.
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel—only a means to an end.
— Henry Ford Theosophist Magazine

wealth

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 quote.
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

business

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 quote.
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

knowledge experience money ability

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work. - Henry Ford quote.
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
— Henry Ford
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 damn is the history that we make today. - 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 damn is the history that we make today.
— Henry Ford

history

A problem is a challenge to your intelligence.  Problems are only problems until they are solved, and the solution confers a reward upon the solver.  Instead of avoiding problems we should welcome them and through right thinking make them pay us profits. - Henry Ford quote.
A problem is a challenge to your intelligence.  Problems are only problems until they are solved, and the solution confers a reward upon the solver.  Instead of avoiding problems we should welcome them and through right thinking make them pay us profits.
— Henry Ford The Forum

problem-solving

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