Henry Ford was a business magnate who created the Ford Motor Company and helped changed the United States – and really the world – with the invention of the first affordable automobile for “regular” people.
Ford didn’t invent the first automobile. But he wanted to give the best vehicle to the middle-class people at the affordable rates. Henry Ford also hired African-Americans, women and disabled people to help them out.
Henry Ford single handedly contributed to the modern world and left his mark with his innovation to transportation. And changing transportation affected how cities developed geographically, as well as states.
Henry Ford Quotes
Here are some Henry Ford quotes. They will motivate you to introspect, believe in yourself and strive to be the best. Check them out.
1.“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
2.“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
3.“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
4.“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
5.“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
6.“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
7.“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
8.“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
9.“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
10.“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”
11.“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.”
12.“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
13.“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
14.“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.”
15.“Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.”
16.“Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.”
17.“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.”
18.“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.”
19.“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.”
20.“Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.”
21.“He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.”
22.“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”
23.“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
24.“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.”
25.“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
26.“The greatest thing in life is EXPERIENCE even mistakes have value.”
27.“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
28.“You may think the grass is greener on the other side. But if you take the time to water your own grass, it would be just as green.”
29.“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
30.“Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.”
31.“We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam in the history we make today.”
32.“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.”
33.“Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.”
34.“Some men may succeed because they are destined to, but most men succeed because they are determined to.”
35.“The competitor to be feared is one who never brothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
36.“The key to success is to understand one’s destiny and do it.”
37.“If you always do what you’ve always done you will always get what you always got.”
38.“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
39.“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
40.“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
41.“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
42.“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
43.“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.”
44.“Success is 99% failure.”
45.“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”
46.“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”
47.“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.”
48.“Too many men are afraid of being fools.”
49.“Never complain. Never explain.”
50.“There is joy in work.”
51.“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
52.“I have tried to live my life as my mother would have wished. She taught me as a boy that service is the highest duty in the world.… I have tried to follow her teaching.”
53.“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.”
54.“Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose.”
55.“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”
56.“Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.”
57.“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”
58.“To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.”
59.“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.”
60.“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.”
61.“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.”
62.“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
63.“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
64.“Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.”
65.“Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.”
66.“The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress.”
67.“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”
68.“There are no big problems; there are just a lot of little problems.”
69.“Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.”
70.“The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.”
71.“The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.”
72.“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.”
73.“It doesn’t matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.”
74.“There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.”
75.“A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.”
Henry Ford Video – How Ford Built America
If you want to get a better understanding of the impact Henry Ford had on the automobile industry and the United States in general, watch this short and interesting clip.
Conclusion
While other people at his place would have cared about making money, he cared about his workers. Henry Ford implemented five days a week policy and offered good wages. He believed that his workers should be able to spend their pay and also get a car for their families.
Henry Ford’s progressive and forward-thinking ways are revealed in these Henry Ford quotes. They talk about success, quality, business, customers, money. His wise words show that there are no big problems. Just a lot of little problems. We can solve them if we believe in ourselves and don’t lose patience.
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