Top 350 Henry Ford Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.”

— Henry Ford

52. “Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.”

— Henry Ford

53. “The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”

— Henry Ford

54. “Show me who makes a profit from war, and I’ll show you how to stop the war.”

— Henry Ford

55. “I’ll sleep well tonight.”

— Henry Ford

56. “Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.”

— Henry Ford

57. “Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.”

— Henry Ford

58. “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

59. “Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.”

— Henry Ford

60. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”

— Henry Ford

61. “Anybody can do anything that he imagines.”

— Henry Ford

62. “Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.”

— Henry Ford

63. “An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history – he is one who can accomplish things.”

— Henry Ford

64. “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.”

— Henry Ford

65. “The object of living is work, experience, happiness.”

— Henry Ford

66. “Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But 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

67. “Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business.”

— Henry Ford

68. “When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.”

— Henry Ford

69. “I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there were centuries of work.”

— Henry Ford

70. “A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.”

— Henry Ford

71. “Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.”

— Henry Ford

72. “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

73. “I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”

— Henry Ford

74. “Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.”

— Henry Ford

75. “To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.”

— Henry Ford

76. “Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.”

— Henry Ford

77. “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.”

— Henry Ford

78. “The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .”

— Henry Ford

79. “Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.”

— Henry Ford

80. “Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.”

— Henry Ford

81. “The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.”

— Henry Ford

82. “Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.”

— Henry Ford

83. “Every success is the mother of countless others.”

— Henry Ford

84. “There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.”

— Henry Ford

85. “The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.”

— Henry Ford

86. “Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.”

— Henry Ford

87. “I was happier when I was doing a mechanic’s job.”

— Henry Ford

88. “Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.”

— Henry Ford

89. “One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.”

— Henry Ford

90. “If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

— Henry Ford

91. “Impossible means that you haven’t found a solution yet .”

— Henry Ford

92. “The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.”

— Henry Ford

93. “Any colour – so long as it’s black.”

— Henry Ford

94. “A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.”

— Henry Ford

95. “Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man’s independence.”

— Henry Ford

96. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

— Henry Ford

97. “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.”

— Henry Ford

98. “If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.”

— Henry Ford

99. “Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

— Henry Ford

100. “I will build a car for the great multitude.”

— Henry Ford