Top 350 Henry Ford Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “If people understood how the economic system works, there’d be a revolution in a minute.”

— Henry Ford

152. “I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive “gift.” It is really hard-won experience.”

— Henry Ford

153. “The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.”

— Henry Ford

154. “If you don’t think of the future, you won’t have one.”

— Henry Ford

155. “Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.”

— Henry Ford

156. “America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.”

— Henry Ford

157. “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

158. “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.”

— Henry Ford

159. “The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.”

— Henry Ford

160. “Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.”

— Henry Ford

161. “There is joy in work.”

— Henry Ford

162. “Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.”

— Henry Ford

163. “A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.”

— Henry Ford

164. “The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.”

— Henry Ford

165. “Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.”

— Henry Ford

166. “A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.”

— Henry Ford

167. “People are as happy as they choose to be.”

— Henry Ford

168. “It is the customer that pays the wages.”

— Henry Ford

169. “The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy.”

— Henry Ford

170. “Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming...”

— Henry Ford

171. “One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that’s why so few people engage in it.”

— Henry Ford

172. “It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.”

— Henry Ford

173. “Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.”

— Henry Ford

174. “The more you think, the more time you have.”

— Henry Ford

175. “The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”

— Henry Ford

176. “Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.”

— Henry Ford

177. “The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one’s country and its people.”

— Henry Ford

178. “Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.”

— Henry Ford

179. “The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.”

— Henry Ford

180. “No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.”

— Henry Ford

181. “Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.”

— Henry Ford

182. “Thinking is the hardest work we do.”

— Henry Ford

183. “A man’s real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.”

— Henry Ford

184. “The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.”

— Henry Ford

185. “Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.”

— Henry Ford

186. “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. It’s simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!”

— Henry Ford

187. “That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.”

— Henry Ford

188. “Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.”

— Henry Ford

189. “The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.”

— Henry Ford

190. “A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.”

— Henry Ford

191. “Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.”

— Henry Ford

192. “To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition.”

— Henry Ford

193. “Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.”

— Henry Ford

194. “If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.”

— Henry Ford

195. “An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.”

— Henry Ford

196. “Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.”

— Henry Ford

197. “Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man’s back and place it on the broad back of the machine.”

— Henry Ford

198. “Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”

— Henry Ford

199. “Success is a matter of adjusting one’s efforts to obstacles and one’s abilities to a service needed by others.”

— Henry Ford

200. “Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.”

— Henry Ford