Top 350 Henry Ford Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Sometimes you just don’t like somebody.”

— Henry Ford

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

— Henry Ford

204. “There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.”

— Henry Ford

205. “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

206. “An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.”

— Henry Ford

207. “A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.”

— Henry Ford

208. “Understand the difference between being at work and working.”

— Henry Ford

209. “The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.”

— Henry Ford

210. “When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.”

— Henry Ford

211. “Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.”

— Henry Ford

212. “Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.”

— Henry Ford

213. “The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.”

— Henry Ford

214. “Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”

— Henry Ford

215. “We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.”

— Henry Ford

216. “Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.”

— Henry Ford

217. “The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.”

— Henry Ford

218. “A low wage business is always insecure.”

— Henry Ford

219. “The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.”

— Henry Ford

220. “The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.”

— Henry Ford

221. “A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.”

— Henry Ford

222. “Integrity is crucial for business success – once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”

— Henry Ford

223. “Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.”

— Henry Ford

224. “Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.”

— Henry Ford

225. “There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.”

— Henry Ford

226. “There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world’s ills will be cured.”

— Henry Ford

227. “Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”

— Henry Ford

228. “What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.”

— Henry Ford

229. “For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.”

— Henry Ford

230. “Every experience is worth having.”

— Henry Ford

231. “Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?”

— Henry Ford

232. “You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn’t be enough left to run it.”

— Henry Ford

233. “Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.”

— Henry Ford

234. “If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.”

— Henry Ford

235. “There is no such thing as no chance.”

— Henry Ford

236. “The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.”

— Henry Ford

237. “The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.”

— Henry Ford

238. “The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.”

— Henry Ford

239. “I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.”

— Henry Ford

240. “I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.”

— Henry Ford

241. “Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.”

— Henry Ford

242. “All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.”

— Henry Ford

243. “It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.”

— Henry Ford

244. “Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.”

— Henry Ford

245. “Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.”

— Henry Ford

246. “I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.”

— Henry Ford

247. “I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”

— Henry Ford

248. “Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.”

— Henry Ford

249. “The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.”

— Henry Ford

250. “You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.”

— Henry Ford