Top 380 Henry Ford Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.”

— Henry Ford

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352. “We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.”

— Henry Ford

353. “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

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354. “If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they’ll work out their own salvation.”

— Henry Ford

355. “Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.”

— Henry Ford

356. “There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is “fixed” for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.”

— Henry Ford

357. “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

358. “Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.”

— Henry Ford

359. “Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.”

— Henry Ford

360. “The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.”

— Henry Ford

361. “Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.”

— Henry Ford

362. “The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what’s one’s future to try and do, and after that do it.”

— Henry Ford

363. “Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right.”

— Henry Ford

364. “It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.”

— Henry Ford

365. “All that money can do is buy us some one else’s work in exchange for our own.”

— Henry Ford

366. “Reading musses up my mind.”

— Henry Ford

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367. “I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more – as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.”

— Henry Ford

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368. “At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.”

— Henry Ford

369. “We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use – not conservation – that interests us.”

— Henry Ford

370. “It is inevitable that any one who can borrow freely to cover errors of management will borrow rather than correct the errors.”

— Henry Ford

371. “If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.”

— Henry Ford

372. “Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck.”

— Henry Ford

373. “Poverty cannot be abolished by formula; it can be abolished only by hard and intelligent work.”

— Henry Ford

374. “An able man is a man who can do things, and his ability to do things is dependent on what he has in him. What he has in him depends on what he started with and what he has done to increase and discipline it.”

— Henry Ford

375. “For my own short experience, together with what I saw going on around me, was quite enough proof that business as a mere money-making game was not worth giving much thought to and was distinctly no place for a man who wanted to accomplish anything. Also it did not seem to me to be the way to make money. I have yet to have it demonstrated that it is the way. For the only foundation of real business is service.”

— Henry Ford

376. “That is very much like asking: “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.”

— Henry Ford

377. “3. The putting of service before profit. Without a profit, business cannot extend. There is nothing inherently wrong about making a profit. Well-conducted business enterprise cannot fail to return a profit, but profit must and inevitably will come as a reward for good service. It cannot be the basis – it must be the result of service.”

— Henry Ford

378. “The natural thing to do is to work – to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course. I have no suggestion which goes beyond accepting in its fullest this principle of nature.”

— Henry Ford

379. “The moment one gets into the “expert” state of mind a great number of things become impossible. I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities. I cannot discover that any one knows enough about anything on this earth definitely to say what is and what is not possible.”

— Henry Ford

380. “If you make what they need, and sell it at a price which makes possession a help and not a hardship, then you will do business as long as there is business to do. People buy what helps them just as naturally as they drink water.”

— Henry Ford

381. “The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking. And it often happens that a man can think better if he is not hampered by the knowledge of the past.”

— Henry Ford

382. “The man who does not get a certain satisfaction out of his day’s work is losing the best part of his pay.”

— Henry Ford

383. “A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.”

— Henry Ford

384. “That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It.”

— Henry Ford

385. “Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.”

— Henry Ford