Famous Henry Ford Quotations

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"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
by Henry Ford
"Don't find fault, find a remedy."
by Henry Ford
"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."
by Henry Ford
"History is more or less bunk."
by Henry Ford
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
by Henry Ford
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
by Henry Ford
"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."
by Henry Ford
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
by Henry Ford
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
by Henry Ford
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
by Henry Ford
"A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it"
by Henry Ford
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business."
by Henry Ford
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business"
by Henry Ford
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
by Henry Ford
"Any colour - so long as it's black."
by Henry Ford
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
by Henry Ford
"Asking ‘who ought to be the boss’ is like asking ‘who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
by Henry Ford
"Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
by Henry Ford
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
by Henry Ford
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success"
by Henry Ford
"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."
by Henry Ford
"Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
by Henry Ford
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
by Henry Ford
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success"
by Henry Ford
"Coming together is a beginning, Staying together is progress, Working together is success."
by Henry Ford
"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain"
by Henry Ford
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."
by Henry Ford
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
by Henry Ford
"Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently"
by Henry Ford
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
by Henry Ford
"History is more or less bunk"
by Henry Ford
"History is bunk."
by 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 we made today."
by Henry Ford
"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 the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields."
by Henry Ford
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."
by Henry Ford
"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."
by Henry Ford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
by Henry Ford
"If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right."
by Henry Ford
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
by Henry Ford
"It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
by Henry Ford
"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."
by Henry Ford
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."
by Henry Ford
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."
by Henry Ford
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
by Henry Ford
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal"
by Henry Ford
"Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich."
by Henry Ford
"People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black."
by Henry Ford
"Reading musses up my mind."
by Henry Ford
"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."
by Henry Ford
"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
by Henry Ford
"There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!"
by Henry Ford
"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."
by Henry Ford
"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."
by Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it"
by Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it."
by Henry Ford
"Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving"
by Henry Ford
"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge."
by J.B.S. Haldane
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."
by Henry II Ford
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
by Henry Ford
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."
by Henry Ford
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
by Henry Ford
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
by Henry Ford
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do"
by Henry Ford
"You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do."
by Henry Ford
"You make what we buy."
by Henry Ford
"You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it."
by Henry Ford
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"
by Henry Ford
"The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
by Henry Ford
"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."
by Henry Ford
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
by Henry Ford
"A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."
by Henry Ford
"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
by 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."
by Henry Ford
"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."
by Henry Ford
"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."
by Henry Ford
"Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made."
by Henry Ford
"It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence."
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
by Henry Ford
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
by Henry Ford
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources -- to do something about them."
by Henry Ford
"There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do."
by Henry Ford
"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."
by Henry Ford
"A set back is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
by Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it."
by Henry Ford
"The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
by Henry Ford
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
by Henry Ford


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