Top 350 Henry Ford Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Henry Ford

102. “To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.”

— Henry Ford

103. “Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.”

— Henry Ford

104. “A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.”

— Henry Ford

105. “We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.”

— Henry Ford

106. “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

107. “Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can’t are both right.”

— Henry Ford

108. “There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry’s 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.”

— Henry Ford

109. “To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.”

— Henry Ford

110. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”

— Henry Ford

111. “Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity – not simply for ourselves but for others – the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.”

— Henry Ford

112. “The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.”

— Henry Ford

113. “If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.”

— Henry Ford

114. “Failure is the chance to do it better next time.”

— Henry Ford

115. “Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.”

— Henry Ford

116. “One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”

— Henry Ford

117. “Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.”

— Henry Ford

118. “Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.”

— Henry Ford

119. “It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.”

— Henry Ford

120. “You don’t have to hold a position to be a leader.”

— Henry Ford

121. “Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that’s all.”

— Henry Ford

122. “Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself.”

— Henry Ford

123. “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

— Henry Ford

124. “Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”

— Henry Ford

125. “The most important history is the history we make today.”

— Henry Ford

126. “The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.”

— Henry Ford

127. “Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.”

— Henry Ford

128. “There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

— Henry Ford

129. “The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

— Henry Ford

130. “There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.”

— Henry Ford

131. “We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.”

— Henry Ford

132. “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.”

— Henry Ford

133. “Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”

— Henry Ford

134. “Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free.”

— Henry Ford

135. “Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.”

— Henry Ford

136. “Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.”

— Henry Ford

137. “The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.”

— Henry Ford

138. “There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”

— Henry Ford

139. “The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.”

— Henry Ford

140. “The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.”

— Henry Ford

141. “There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.”

— Henry Ford

142. “The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you are right.”

— Henry Ford

143. “I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.”

— Henry Ford

144. “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

145. “Too many men are afraid of being fools.”

— Henry Ford

146. “It’s your thinking that decides whether you’re going to succeed or fail.”

— Henry Ford

147. “Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.”

— Henry Ford

148. “Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the ‘expert’ state of mind a great number of things become impossible.”

— Henry Ford

149. “You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”

— Henry Ford

150. “Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about – men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year’s ideas.”

— Henry Ford