Top 350 Henry Ford Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.”

— Henry Ford

252. “When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves.”

— Henry Ford

253. “Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.”

— Henry Ford

254. “An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”

— Henry Ford

255. “The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.”

— Henry Ford

256. “There are people who say they can, others they can not. In general, they are all right .”

— Henry Ford

257. “Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others – these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.”

— Henry Ford

258. “The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.”

— Henry Ford

259. “Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.”

— Henry Ford

260. “As we serve our jobs we serve the world.”

— Henry Ford

261. “The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.”

— Henry Ford

262. “The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.”

— Henry Ford

263. “It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?”

— Henry Ford

264. “Money doesn’t make us anyway it just unmasks us.”

— Henry Ford

265. “Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.”

— Henry Ford

266. “I could use a hundred people who don’t know there is such a word as impossible.”

— Henry Ford

267. “If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.”

— Henry Ford

268. “Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.”

— Henry Ford

269. “I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.”

— Henry Ford

270. “Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.”

— Henry Ford

271. “Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose.”

— Henry Ford

272. “Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.”

— Henry Ford

273. “Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.”

— Henry Ford

274. “The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or philosophy.”

— Henry Ford

275. “A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.”

— Henry Ford

276. “Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it.”

— Henry Ford

277. “I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.”

— Henry Ford

278. “The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.”

— Henry Ford

279. “When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.”

— Henry Ford

280. “If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.”

— Henry Ford

281. “The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.”

— Henry Ford

282. “This company doesn’t pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.”

— Henry Ford

283. “You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.”

— Henry Ford

284. “When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.”

— Henry Ford

285. “We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.”

— Henry Ford

286. “As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow.”

— Henry Ford

287. “If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.”

— Henry Ford

288. “Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.”

— Henry Ford

289. “The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.”

— Henry Ford

290. “Who stops learning may be old.”

— Henry Ford

291. “The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.”

— Henry Ford

292. “A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.”

— Henry Ford

293. “The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.”

— Henry Ford

294. “History is more or less bunk.”

— Henry Ford

295. “The average man won’t really do a day’s work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.”

— Henry Ford

296. “Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.”

— Henry Ford

297. “We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.”

— Henry Ford

298. “I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives.”

— Henry Ford

299. “Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.”

— Henry Ford

300. “Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.”

— Henry Ford