You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
– Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
– Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
– 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
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t – you’re right.
– Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
– Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
– Henry Ford
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
– Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
– Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
– Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they
can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.
– Henry Ford
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
– Henry Ford
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the
point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise
the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if
I had found a universal plan I realised that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time
was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. Genius is experience.
Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many
lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more. The discovery of
reincarnation put my mind at ease. If you preserve a record of this conversation, write it so
that it puts men’s minds at ease. I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the
long view of life gives to us.
– Henry Ford
Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.
– Henry Ford
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
– Henry Ford
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
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against
the wind, not with it.
– Henry Ford
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
– Henry Ford
Do your best every time, because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into
yourself.
– Henry Ford
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
– Henry Ford
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be
embarrassingly large.
– Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
– Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
– Henry Ford
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
– Henry Ford
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
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what
happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
– 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
Life is a series of experiences, each 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.
– Henry Ford
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
– Henry Ford
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small
enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by
the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But
it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and
enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.
– Henry Ford
If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.
– Henry Ford
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
– Henry Ford
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a
cure for poverty.
– Henry Ford
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the
fire hazard.
– Henry Ford
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
– Henry Ford
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
– Henry Ford
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do
it.
– Henry Ford
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have
accomplished something.
– Henry Ford
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody
thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.
– Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays – he only handles money. It is the product that pays wages.
– Henry Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
– 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.
– 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.
– Henry Ford
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
– Henry Ford
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
– Henry Ford
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
– Henry Ford
Money is like an arm or a leg – use it or lose it.
– Henry Ford
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
– Henry Ford
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get to other person’s point of
view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
– Henry Ford
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
Too many men are afraid of being fools.
– Henry Ford
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
– Henry Ford
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish
expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and
useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is
better than to teach him to save.
– 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.
– Henry Ford
History is more or less bunk.
– Henry Ford