Top 350 Henry Ford Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.”

— Henry Ford

302. “We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.”

— Henry Ford

303. “A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.”

— Henry Ford

304. “The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.”

— Henry Ford

305. “The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.”

— Henry Ford

306. “Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.”

— Henry Ford

307. “I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.”

— Henry Ford

308. “The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid.”

— Henry Ford

309. “These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.”

— Henry Ford

310. “In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.”

— Henry Ford

311. “Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.”

— Henry Ford

312. “Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.”

— Henry Ford

313. “There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.”

— Henry Ford

314. “I didn’t get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.”

— Henry Ford

315. “Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.”

— Henry Ford

316. “Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.”

— Henry Ford

317. “Any decision you make isn’t worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.”

— Henry Ford

318. “Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.”

— Henry Ford

319. “In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.”

— Henry Ford

320. “Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.”

— Henry Ford

321. “Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.”

— Henry Ford

322. “Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!”

— Henry Ford

323. “You can’t tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don’t mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don’t leave anything over.”

— Henry Ford

324. “To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

— Henry Ford

325. “People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.”

— Henry Ford

326. “A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.”

— Henry Ford

327. “History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.”

— Henry Ford

328. “The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.”

— Henry Ford

329. “No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.”

— Henry Ford

330. “My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.”

— Henry Ford

331. “People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.”

— Henry Ford

332. “No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.”

— Henry Ford

333. “Political parties are like poets, born, not made.”

— Henry Ford

334. “A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.”

— Henry Ford

335. “Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.”

— Henry Ford

336. “Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.”

— Henry Ford

337. “Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.”

— Henry Ford

338. “Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.”

— Henry Ford

339. “He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.”

— Henry Ford

340. “Minicars produce miniprofits.”

— Henry Ford

341. “No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.”

— Henry Ford

342. “Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.”

— Henry Ford

343. “If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case.”

— Henry Ford

344. “Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.”

— Henry Ford

345. “We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.”

— Henry Ford

346. “If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear – nothing in all of life to be afraid of.”

— Henry Ford

347. “When you get a whole country – as did ours – thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.”

— Henry Ford

348. “I wouldn’t give five cents for all the art in the world.”

— Henry Ford

349. “Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings – all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking.”

— Henry Ford

350. “A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy’s life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.”

— Henry Ford